Word: asking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose benefits all flow in the direction. The faculty is usually better for it than the students are, and for good reason it compels students to be honorable with the professor, but it does not compel the professor to be honorable with the students. He is not compelled to ask fair questions or consider previous diligence...
Motioning his chauffeur to a seat beside the wheel, Il Duce seized it himself, kicked open the cutout, vanished before news gatherers could ask whither...
...Western Reserve University had written in the New York Times, an outstanding phenomenon everywhere during 1925-26 was the increasing power?or at least, increased self-assertiveness? of the undergraduates. (Dr. Thwing had compared this phenomenon to the "student universities" of the Middle Ages, when a professor had to ask his pupils for permission to take a week-end off. Ah, there was thirst for knowledge in those days...
...Freshman crew; but in view of the fact that college examinations have been concluded and the members of the Freshman class have already left New Haven, it was suggested to Harvard as perhaps a possible alternative, to consider the regular Freshman race as forfeited by Yale, and to ask the Harvard Freshman crew to participate in the Harvard-Yale Junior University event...
President Lowell of Harvard once said: "When a man's life ends, we ask what he has done; but a diploma from a school or a degree from a college is not an obituary, and when a student's education ends, we should ask, not what he has done, but what he is or has become...