Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern trees bear a strange fruit...
This step should please those who adopt the fruit-root attitude, who look for the cause of tutoring in fundamental faults in the Harvard system. Of course, the examination problem will have to be gone over more thoroughly in the future, for there is much to be done here. Moreover, the other half of faculty responsibility--lapses in instruction--is crying for investigation. But this step means progress in the struggle against the schools in the Square...
...Downtown Manhattan, with old-fashioned desks, high-backed chairs, an ancient parlor stove, some 60 years ago went a Vermonter named Henry William Putnam to merchandise and distribute his invention-a bottle stopper. Mr. Putnam and his bottle stopper began to make money. Mr. Putnam also invented a glass fruit jar, made more money. In 1898 when, grown old and tired, Mr. Putnam called his son into his office and turned the business over to him, it was worth...
...first Cowers to Harvard in 1886, as an aid to teaching botany. Thereafter Harvard took the Blaschkas' entire output. Leopold died in 1895, but Rudolph, working on alone, persevered until three years ago when, near 80 and his eyesight failing because of the work, he shipped 15 fruit models to Harvard, soon closed down his studio...
...justified in tutoring when the University muffs its end of the bargain. When some courses are poorly organized and others are poorly taught, when there is vastly too much reading for the average ability in still others, then outside tutoring is a necessary evil. Then it is a fruit, not a root. So says the majority opinion...