Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Ramsay Macdonald, onetime ( Jan.-Nov. 1924) Premier, Leader of the Labor party: "We admit that the British soldiers and marines now en route to China are being sent merely as policemen. . . . But this is a distinction which may not be clear to Chinese minds. . We fear that the British public may go to bed one night with its soldiers acting as policemen in China, and wake up next morning to find them acting as soldiers...
...logically implies that the C men are not worthy of higher education as it is applied under the new principle. That this extreme is nonsense, the Tutorial system at Harvard clearly demonstrates, but it is nevertheless true that state universities particularly, and endowed colleges to a less degree, admit at present many unfit for higher education. This too the Tutorial system has disclosed by placing so much more emphasis on mind, so much less on memory...
...same time limits higher education under the new methods to two years, a period far too short. The more logical solution embraces three factors, each inseparable from the other. First the college should further limit its enrolment by such admission requirements as would, in the judgment of its administrators, admit only those who are capable of profiting by higher education under the Tutorial system. In cases of very limited finances further elimination by other admission requirements might be necessary. These measures would automatically force a reorganization of the curriculum of schools preparing for college to meet the changed demands. Finally...
...another name for a cookie-pusher. Members of this species may and very often do work, and could not be classed as loafers by any means. They have very exalted opinions of their ability to charm the female sex, and if you crowd them right close, they might reluctantly admit that they belong to the sheik class. As a rule they have more activity in their feet than in their heads. In fact, they are entirely too light at both ends. They exist in the South, North, East, and West, and not in the South alone...
...Since acceptance of this condition was a complete about face for the Nationalists, they were allowed to weasel their acceptance for electioneering purposes by declaring that although they accept the German Republic de facto they do not admit the validity de jure of the Weimar Constitution on which it rests...