Word: assigning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wheels. Two schools on wheels are about to roll through Canada, according to announcement just made by Ontario's Minister of Education. Specially equipped railway cars will penetrate remote districts, pausing a week for instruction in classrooms fitted on board; will assign home work, roll on, return every five weeks...
...does not know whether to assign credit to universal agitation or a series of remarkable leaders. So one cannot do better than to forget both and remember that all the issues were social and economic protests indebted to politics neither for existence or importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with...
...difficult to assign any definite reasons or canses for the decline in playing brilliance in college circles," Tilden said, "but I am convinced that it is only a temporary one. Perhaps it is a natural reaction to the intense enthusiasm for the sport in 1920, and the following season which so greatly increased its popularity and the proficiency of the undergraduate players of that time...
...committee of the most skillful of the advisors who will see personally and at length each year, within a few days of the opening of the School, each entering student in order to learn at once as well as possible, his personality, interests, training and capacities, and assign him to an advisor likely to be especially desirable...
...During the year the Faculty voted to reduce the number of subjects to be covered by the examination at the end of the middle year from seven to five. At the same time they voted to assign members of the senior class to tutors who should supervise their work, should...