Word: welters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cynical observer recently described the holder of an honorary degree as a man who had bought well for his college. Surveying the welter of estimable mediocrities who are annually acclaimed at Commencement, it does not always appear that they have performed a better service. Actually, few academic traditions have been more causally corrupted than that by which the symbol of scholarship is bestowed on persons of exceptional distinction in intellectual life of public service. The unhappy fact is that many colleges which are so liberal with their sheepskins lack faculties capable of measuring achievement from the point of view...
...scarcely a surprise that this year's Commencement week should find its dominant note in the field of politics and economics. One would be led to suppose, however, that this week's welter of oratory might contain something constructive to grace the thinking which went into its composition. Any close examination of the two outstanding speeches, the Phi Beta Kappa Oration and the Class Oration, shows that such was not the case...
...average European unfolding his thin morning paper last week found the U. S. an exciting welter. What was going , on at those conferences in the White House? Was it the peasants of Idaho, Iowa or Ohio that were in armed revolt? What was the meaning of "controlled inflation?" Could the U. S. Government control it better than the French or Ger- man Governments had done? All these things occurring 4,000 mi. away were of vital interest to Europe. Near at hand there was one man who in two brief scenes made things much clearer: U. S. Ambassador-at-Large...
...general, the affidavit, regarded as a statement of policy, is little more than a welter of idealistic impracticalities. The students should do their work completely and critically; but many of them will never do so while they are assigned unwieldy tomos, which waste their time, and many of them will never do so in any case. The tutoring bureaus should stop helping the undergraduate down the path of intellectual disintegration; but the experience of Harvard and others has shown that they will not stop, and cannot be stopped...
Such was the welter of testimony- plausible, contradictory, inconclusive-before the Naval Court of Inquiry when it adjourned last week from Lakehurst Naval Air Station to Washington Navy Yard. The court was moved to the Capital because witnesses were required to appear also before the joint Congressional investigating committee which convenes this week...