Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
This is not mere theorizing. I feel sure that the system has actually done an injustice to one of my classmates (there may be more) in as much as it is to deny him an degree and is to give a degree to certain men in the "snap" departments who not only have been notorious loafers during their college careers but also have failed to make themselves worthy of the ranks of the educated...
Either the system of general examinations must be overhauled, or standards in the "snap" departments must be raised...
...English Department is dominated by the fear that the undergraduates will put something over on it. The student of English, however good his record, goes through College continually under suspicion. The professors are terrified by the fear that undergraduates will concentrate in literature because it is a snap. They throw overboard all principles of sane scholarship and intelligent teaching in order to make their courses hard. Fearing intelligence, because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There is no question longer than...
...Being an Ambassador," said the U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, in Washington last week, "is a snap compared to being the father-in-law of the world's best known bridegroom...