Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These two great flaws, in tutoring and in lecturing, may, in turn, account partly for the field's reputation as a "snap" and magnet of many men who care not a whit for the subject or for education generally. Once in the Department, lacking self-motive power, they continue to drift in the doldrums, with little departmental breeze to spur them onward. More than this, if the field is to shed its odious name, it must look to all its standards and requirements...
...Music 4 (appreciation) are being combined into Music 1 to be called "a general survey course" and will include both of the above fields. Requirements will be much stiffer here than in the past, the Department being auxicus to rid itself of the onus of giving the last "snap" course in the College. This should lay a complete foundation for an adequate coverage of the field...
...facts, however, stand out in bold relief. Last year's Carnegie survey reported the Sociology Department as one of two sub-standard groups in the college. It is the department most likely to receive the sweepings--the undecided, the cast-off from another department, and the seeker of the "snap" field. Since its origin there has been a great increase in the number of concentrators, but there has been hardly more than a gesture made at increasing its allotment of funds. The double action of expansion within and budget rigidity imposed from without has show up grievous flaws. The need...
Traveling to Hanover, the Yardling team will clash with the Dartmouth Freshmen tomorrow afternoon in an attempt to snap the Green string of four victories. Records of the two teams seem to indicate an evenly matched contest in which the Freshmen must be at their best to score...
That was too much even for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, which lashed out: "To snap an informal photograph of the President at the moment that he happens to be rubbing his nose and then to publish it over captions implying that the attitude reveals weariness of spirit, despair or silence under attack is as flagrant a piece of misreporting as it would be to distort the clear meaning of his reply to a press-conference question...