Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the mortality percentage for the General Examinations is a known quantity and we may behold our fallen comrades, it might be well to cast a glance at the examination system which determined who is to have a degree...
...system of general examinations works well, no doubt, as far as each individual department of the college is concerned. The examinations determine accurately enough who in each field should fail, and who should be passed. But does the system work well for the various departments considered as a unit and called Harvard College? This, I maintain, it does...
...well known fact that certain departments of Harvard are less difficult than certain others. Every one knows, for example, that the Philosophy and English Departments are more difficult than the Social Ethics and Anthropology Departments. Not only are the majority of courses within the "snap" departments easy, but worse still, these departments are more lenient than the other departments in recommending seniors for a degree. Herein lies the evil of the system. Conferring a degree upon one senior and refusing to confer a degree upon another means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained...
When her love "clears" by consummation, her art acquires clean, voluptuous curves, a well-defined posterlike quality. Suddenly, however, her art switches to violent angles and she casts out love. Then, tiring of angles, she decided to have a baby, curious to know what kind of art supplements motherhood...
...Author Rea stops her character-sketching at precisely 7:35 p. m. leaving her six Mrs. Greenes- all products of English homes, schools, marriages, incomes, social sets-just as she found them, separate beings related to one another only by name and background. Author Rea writes wisely but not well...