Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uneasiness has been further augmented in recent days on account of numerous raids on Croat homes and by the fact that all our societies and associations, including choral and gymnastic ones, have been dissolved. This gives us the distinct impression that the new government is directed against...
...chief reason that the society is driving its information at women is that more women than men die of cancer, "on account of the part which women play in the reproduction of the race." Early recognition and prompt treatment of cancer is always of inestimable value, particularly in breast cancer. The burden of caring for the sick and aged falls chiefly upon women, and for this reason they should know that cancer is not contagious, and that many of the common beliefs regarding its cause and treatment are untrue. Because they are so often the guardians of the family...
...clock as they left their counting rooms, and talk shop, ships, and politics for half an hour or so. The whole first story of the ambitious new Coffee House was devoted to a great Exchange Floor, but this probably saw little business, for according to the contemporary account of Caleb Snow, the merchants preferred to follow in the way of their fathers, and meet more informally on State Street, "even in the inclement winter months." But the tavern achieved a place in the scheme of things in a number of ways. No expense had been spared to provide every convenience...
...three hour duration of each one are facts which combine to justify the period of two weeks and a half. Furthermore, it is firmly believed that a plan which involves more than a single examination in one day defeats its own purpose when the physical strain is taken into account. Yale, on the other hand, in waiving all such considerations, subjects students to the possibility of enduring as many as four two hour examinations in the span of a day. When the Harvard system is criticized by someone viewing it from outside, the principal objection is usually based...
...Plan as it is envisaged by its present supporters. The scheme of arbitrary assignment to Houses in accordance with the idea of a cross-section composition for each calls forth the following remarks from a proselyting member of Unit C: "When your application blanks come you must on no account mention Unit C." "Why?" "Because the dean will think you want to join the units you list because you have friends there, or because you hear the tutors are good, or because you think the fellows will be congenial, or for some other low and detestable reason...