Word: deviously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1921-1921
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...service in the army. Some of these men are in federal hospitals, others are paying for treatment from their own resources, many are in extreme need. The only hope of these last lies in getting their war risk insurance paid to them, and this, because of the numerous and devious methods of the war department, is not always forth-coming...
...looking back with a comfortable perspective over an experience of some fifteen years in teaching and numerous hours of the period of time spent in attempting to explain and make attractive the numerous and devious methods of admission to Harvard with which we have been favored during those years, it seems that the time has come to consider seriously some of the unreasonable admission requirements which tend to make the nervous candidate shy at the thought of Harvard. If we wish to compete in numbers with the other large universities, why not, in the name of common sense, remove some...
Wisdom comes to Seniors by devious paths, however, and though so few would, even if they had the choice again yield the apple to Minerva, the traditional vote for Phi Beta Kappa is extremely rational. One comes to college, after all, to be educated; if the curriculum is education, why then, Phi Beta Kappa is the mark of success in curricular pursuits--and most to be desired. Unfortunately, the hypothesis that the curriculum in itself constitutes education is the weak link in the chain of this logic; for it is too obvious that the curriculum is but a part very...