Word: aid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves him" which drives a student to tutoring schools, according to one letter. A father bemoans the fact that a professor refused his Freshman son needed aid, forcing him to a tutoring school. Two Freshmen accuse the University of ignoring the problem which first year men meet in organizing their work and in facing an entirely new system. Others lambaste excessive and dull reading lists...
...problem of adjustment is peculiarly important. It is difficult for Freshmen to meet the machine-like routine of Harvard. They are in need of conscientious guidance and aid in each course, they require individual treatment and consideration in the assignment of work. Instead they are here faced with an inordinately difficult course like History I; often with unfeeling automatons for instructor. Small wonder that the sirens from across the strait lure them...
...corrosive influence on Harvard's educational standards." The Student Council was pulling its punches when it made this statement two years ago. The same thing should have been shouted in four-letter monosyllables. Once upon a time, tutoring was understood to be a type of legitimate aid, granted to help a slow but honest student. Now, at Harvard, it is defined as a method of passing courses without working, without thinking, without learning...
Being the grandson of a '49er, and a Native Son I feel impelled to go to the aid of that local lady who fears her Eastern kin may fear to visit Frisco because she is living in the "toughest part of town" (TIME, March 13). I'll calm her fears right off the reel. Neither she nor her relatives need fear any toughness in this city. There ain't no such thing any more. This town is as tame now as a long tailed lamb. All its toughness was rubbed out long ago along with...
Written by 72-year-old Pharmaceutical Chemist Alfred Robert Louis Dohme, longtime (1911-29) president of Sharpe & Dohme (drugs), the ballet scenario tells of a scientist who tries to synthesize radioactive benzene from acetylene with the aid of an atom-smasher. Something goes wrong; "there is a series of blinding flashes and he staggers back." After another failure, he sits down, sinks into discouraged sleep, dreams...