Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dummy scrimmage which followed the contact work occupied the greater part of the afternoon session. Since the Harlow system is largely dependent on a smooth and fast functioning attack, emphasis was laid on snap and deception...
...paper Harvard University looks like a snap to navigate. Actually the office buildings, stores, and fruit stands which press about the University make the problem no cinch for the tyro who cannot distinguish between the Cambridge Trust Company and Holyoke House...
...friend of mine, who was there lately, tells me that he asked one Swiss after another what was the name of the President, and that they all sought refuge in polite astonishment at such ignorance, and, when pressed for the name, could only screw up their eyes, snap their fingers, and solemnly declare that they had it on the tips of their tongues. This is just as it should be. ... In the Republics of France and of America the president is of an extrusive kind. His office has been fashioned on the monarchic model and his whole position is anomalous...
...technology," is fanatically devoted to "practical" learning. Its students (now numbering 1,500) go to their first classes at 8 a.m., rarely knock off before 4:30 p.m. They are too busy for drinking, dancing, big-time athletics or campus chitchat (only one-third live in dormitories). Offering no snap courses, Rensselaer strips down even English and Philosophy to their utilitarian bones. English is studied by Rensselaer men primarily as a tool for writing business reports and selling their ideas. Almost their only un-antlike activity is stamp collecting, favorite Rensselaer hobby...
...departure in Harvard education, with emphasis on personal contact, small groups, informality, and with less stress on examinations. On the other side it may be argued that the giving of course credit would not necessarily increase participation. Moreover, an experimental course faces the real danger of becoming a notorious snap, particularly if formal check-ups are minimized. And the very incorporation into the curriculum might at the outset kill any experimentation with the slow poison of required reading lists and hour exams...