Word: assign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospice on the highest point, 8000 ft., decreed that it should stand as a haven for all travelers. Several years later he founded another hospice, in the Little St. Bernard pass which runs from Bourg St. Maurice to Aosta. During a visit to Rome, he petitioned the Pope to assign the charge to the Augustinian monks. Today there are about 40 St. Bernard brothers, some at the Great Pass, some at the Little Pass, some in neighboring parishes...
...directly with the public market, will deal in futures when prices fall, will take over the holdings of the co-operatives to which the Farm Board has already advanced more than 50 million dollars from its revolving fund. Before the new crop comes in (after midsummer) the Board will assign to Cotton Corp. a market manager, a directorate, funds...
...difficulty, however, is not wholly a matter of dishonesty among those using Widener Many times it has been the custom of instructors to assign reading in large courses with only one copy of the book available. Their co-operation in providing a sufficient number of the works they demand is essential in this consideration. If they would concern themselves to see that there are enough books for their students, then the last vestige of excuse for this petty thievery would be removed...
Midyears are well under way and students are passing or failing as the case may be. But it is to be regretted that there is no sliding scale on which might be judged the professors who assign these semi-annual quizzes. For an examination paper examines the man who gives it as well as him who takes it, and from this point of view many of our faculty would flunk...
...reading period of fourteen days' duration can hardly allow sufficient time, after the student has recuperated from the holidays and before he has begun preparation for exams, for the accomplishment of any substantial amount of reading. Some large courses, therefore, merely expect preparation for the midyear; others assign sporadic reading, which only scratches the surface of the subject. And of course many science and elementary courses continue in full blast right up to the examinations, preventing the undergraduate from obtaining that feeling of leisure and repose which is the prelude of real self-education. Again, the Philosophy department, among others...