Word: attainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given for tutorial preparation it will be difficult to persuade students that they are really expected to do tutorial reading before the immediate proximity of the examinations impresses on them the necessity of earnest work. As long as students hold their present attitude the tutorial system will not attain its fullest usefulness; for only the rare student will devote serious efforts on work for which he is receiving no college credit...
...demands of the Allies at the recent London conference were absurdly large. To meet them Germany would have to attain, within a few years, a favorable trade balance of a bulk of two billion dollars a year. This is at least three times as large as any reasonable estimate would indicate to be possible...
...importance of showing to college students the broad field offered by medicine is only too obvious: the notable achievements in biological research attained under the tutelage of Johns Hopkins University is a case in point. As long as the comparative lack of correlation now existing between the college and medical school continues, there can be no hope of arousing enthusiasm for this work. Undergraduates of scientific inclinations have at present no opportunity of seeing in perspective the advantages offered by medical science. The college, in seeking to attain the proper fulfillment of its pre-professional role, cannot afford to negleet...
According to figures recently published in the "Scientific American", ten percent of our population is illiterate in the absolute sense of the term,--that is, unable to read a word in any language. Of the million boys who attain the age of 18 each year, 50,000 do not speak any English at all; 200,000 have had as little as two years of schooling, and one half that number have had only one year. Those who reach the sixth grade average approximately 500,000, while barely 100,000 ever go through high school. Thus a large percentage of young...
...students give. These specials are always fewer in number than the regular students; but those of them who have had an office training introduce an important element into the school, because their practical experience has given them a facility in drawing which some of the regular students do not attain in the earlier years of their work in the school; and the older special students are likely to be serious students and hard workers. The standards of the school, however, are set for the regular student with his previous college training...