Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infusion of athletic talent would be welcome at Dunster for the members tend to emphasize their daily squash match in the basement courts to the exclusion of inter-House competitive sports...
Substantial objections, however, are raised to the cafeteria plan. It would tend to destroy Mr. Harkness' concept of a "Dinner table education" as the whole meal process would be speeded up with the result that the dining room would lose much of its social character. Trays on the tables, and boys carrying food back and forth would add to the confusion. A new system of ventilation would have to be installed over the food counters lest the dining room smell like the kitchen. Members might well be unwilling to ask their guests to come to the House for a meal...
...understanding the present war. Economics touches on almost every field of human activity, and most people are in direct contact with the economic structure of the country between 9 and 5 o'clock every day. Economics is inseparable from government, and the various courses offered in the Department tend to place correct emphasis on this relationship...
This new plan, although it is not nearly as comprehensive as that suggested by the Council Committee, will certainly tend to prevent the undergraduate from avoiding a broad education. It will force him to acquaint himself with the different types of academic approach: that of the humanities as well as that of science. Although it will affect only a small fraction of the students in every class, it will make it virtually impossible for a Senior to graduate from Harvard without a liberal education...
...have taken the liberty of writing you since I felt the article does tend to convey the impression that the FBI was derelict when it really had no responsibility whatsoever...