Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with great pleasure that I read your fearless denunciation of the corrupt Republican machine in today's Crimson. I could not appreciate the amount of pressure that must have been brought to bear upon you in printing this editorial had I not received the following note from a gentleman high up in elephant circles...
...interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Professor Cole explained that in the past, candidates for honors often wrote 100 to 150 typewritten pages. Believing that a long thesis would influence their rank favorably, they were tempted to put material from secondary sources in their theses, minimizing the amount of original work acquired from their own thinking or research...
Intelligence, however, gags at the off-quoted New Haven aphorism: Princeton boys, Harvard scholars, Yale men, though heretofore it has seemed to many impossible thoroughly to do anything intellectual without assuming the title of scholar. It is doubtful if the amount of independent research work done in any undergraduate department can do more than develop the initiative and mental independence of the person involved. Scholarship only becomes dangerous when it centers interest on the piddling detail at the expense of the panorama of truth. Hardly before a man becomes a Ph.D. can he be said to have lost anything...
Warned Dr. Farrand: "The failure to get the proper amount of sleep is one of the growing evils of American undergraduates. Your efficiency, your competency, your health and your future can be wrecked without the proper amount of sleep...
...country. Be that as it may, their position is such that the alert U. S. citizen should know the extent of their power. Though both the present volumes are concerned with restricting the business of the Supreme Court they do not propose to restrict its jurisdiction, but rather the amount of its work, so that the Court may be increasingly powerful. Hughes emphasizes the Court's deliberate determination to confine itself to its judicial task (maintaining of course its authority as interpreter of the Constitution); Frankfurter and Landis, on the other hand, demonstrate the Supreme Justices' increasing importance...