Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University is to maintain its standing as one of the foremost educational institutions of the country. It must adopt a policy of faculty replacement which provides for competent instruction of its students as well as opportunities for research men. The men who are assigned to teaching for the most part much not be expected to do research work in order to secure promotion but must merit advancement according to their ability to understand their subject, keep up with its developments, and impart it intelligibly to students. Research and enlightenment much aid and abet each other. No educational institution can maintain...
...States, with regard to Latin America, and Japan, with regard to North China, are both interested in excluding foreign political influences which might undermine their own economic interests and opportunities in those areas. To advance this policy, Japan has been induced by the chaotic situation in North China, to adopt an outright coercive technique; the United States has been generally successful in using more subtle measures, such as financial infiltration, but we have on more than a hundred occassions since 1850 resorted to force of arms to protect our economic interests in Latin America. By using strong-arm methods Japan...
Until the schools adopt truly educational programs, the hue and cry about reduced budgets, etc., is not really important. I say this in spite of the fact that my livelihood depends on those same budgets and I have felt the influence of the most extreme demand for economy...
...only editorial writer, Reuben Maury, are Mr. Patterson's substitute for his youthful reform pamphlets. Simple, often monosyllabic, strongly liberal, they might well enrage Publisher Patterson's Red-baiting cousin "Bertie" McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The News was the first newspaper in Manhattan to adopt a five-day week, first to fly the Blue Eagle. It roundly flayed the Press at large for pleading "freedom of the press" as a defense against an NRA newspaper code. It scolded its brothers for resisting Child Labor laws against newsboys and openly stated that it hoped to eliminate...
Current reports that the Rank List for upperclassmen will not be published this spring are a welcome sign that the University intends to adopt some of the reforms proposed by Dean Hanford in his Report. He suggested, among other things, "that tutorial work can . . . be strengthened by altering certain practices which are remnants of the old system based entirely upon courses and the continuation of which place undue stress upon course grades as an end in themselves rather than a means...