Word: worser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lamont Library marks a return to the belief that education is based on unrestricted access to all that humanity has thought and experienced, Provost Buck told the audience at the dedication of the new library yesterday afternoon. "Our worser selves have had little confidence in the capacity of man to solve his fate, have treated our students as though they were children, and so have sought to substitute for free inquiry, discipline and restraint," he said...
...same situation holds in higher education, and "the higher, the worser," says Sargent. Worst of all U.S. universities, he insists, is his own alma mater, Harvard. "There is a hopelessness, a futility about life, a transparent pretense on the part of the fat boys, a feeling of despair on the part of those who still retain some consciousness of an honest past . . ." The reason: "The Corporation through its stooges" has gradually taken control of the administration and faculty alike...