Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with good teaching could learn enough Latin in six months to get into an American college", says Mr. Chapman, "and just this amount, this little smattering of latin, is enough to make the whole difference in any man's outlook upon civilization. This bonus bona, bonum' makes French and Spanish and Italian easy to him. It puts him at home in half the words of the English language. Almost everything an educated man has to do with is tinged with 'bonus, bona, bonum...
...must be halted. We must aim, as we have been aiming, only with ever increasing vigor, to raise the average mental power of the people through better education-- in the broadest sense of the word. Such a program can best be carried out through the colleges. Indeed a certain amount of compulsion is often an absolute necessity in our American universities. This does not mean at all that they should increase compulsion in order to force down the national lever against it. It simply means that they should actively champion real educational reforms which aim to reach the people...
...course in Equitation will consist of both theoretical and practical instruction," said Colonel Goetz. "In addition to the thorough course in Hippology, there will be a certain amount of theoretical work in equitation, outlining the principles and contentions of the different schools of noted masters, such as Baucher, Phillis, and Anderson. Along with these will go instruction in the qualities, conformation, breeding and blood lines of the horse...
...circular of April 14. Consequently students who, in response to that circular, engaged quarters for one or both sessions of the Summer School, will be permitted to occupy their present rooms during the period for which they made application on that circular. This arrangement, will cause only a small amount of temporary inconvenience, during the time in which the rooms are being prepared for occupancy next year...
...considerable amount of equipment for the University artillery unit has just been received by the Military Office. This includes two five-ton Holt tractors, six horses, a complete set of saddles, and a number of observation and fire-control instruments. Four enlisted men of the regular Army have also arrived to care for the horses...