Word: alienating
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These reports are in no sense of the word grades. The CRIMSON believes that any system of grading and examining is entirely alien to the spirit and purpose of tutorial work. The tutorial system was set up in the belief that coercion and tangible reward were unnecessary, and that there was such a thing as study for the sake of knowledge alone. Any retreat to systems of grades and examinations is a tacit admission of defeat in this high purpose. Before that admission is made, a more restricted system of tutorial work ought to be tried...
...Susie decided to get married. For altar they chose a well beside a tree in a nudist colony near Elsinore, Calif. To perform the ceremony they chose Rev. Clarke Irvine of the Temple of Nature Church. For their attendants they chose James Mack as best man, Constance Alien as maid-of-honor. For wedding clothes they chose nothing...
...American universities are to exist, according to the spirit and will of their Christian founders, it will be necessary to clean all places of learning of their alien anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-America, and anti-al things beautiful and pure Satanic elements. A new spiritual deal must now start...
...pitifully appealing for re-election "on his record." He said he was sure the city's women would continue him in office. Magnificently he forbade the holding of a German-American rally that was tinged with Naziism (see p. 24), and to a Negro audience declared: "Not only alien agitators, but for that matter not any people can't form any plans to stir up race hatred in the metropolitan city of New York...
...seven years ago, when Henry Ford manufactured his ten millionth motor car, and the moguls of efficiency were prostrate in self gratulation, he ventured to inject a single sour note. His remark was commonplace enough, considered in the light of our own days, but in 1926 it had an alien and an unfriendly sound. What would happen when the market had been glutted by his ever more efficient production, when the only people devoid of a Ford tonneau were the people devoid of a Ford tonneau were the people without money or the prospects of earning...