Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe that the most efficient method of university teaching is obtained by the lecture system, supplemented by tutorial work" Professor J. V. Portus, of the University of Sydney, Australia, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "In Australian universities" he added, "we rely largely upon the lecture system, however, because of lack of sufficient funds to provide a large faculty...
...largest of these universities contains about 2500 undergraduates, but there is a far smaller percentage of graduate students in Australian universities than in such American institutions as Harvard and Yale. Medicine is one of the most widely studied subjects in the graduate work, although law and engineering receive wide attention. A tendency towards specialization and toward the taking of more practical subjects is also seen at the University of Sydney, Professor. Portus pointed out. This inclination, which is found in many English-speaking countries, in Australia is partly the result of the fact that the Government has appropriated funds...
...politics. John Ramage, the third member of the triple-university team, has been influential in the undergraduate life of the London School of Economics and Political Science, serving for two years on the executive council of the Students' Union of his college, and engaging in a debate against the Australian team which toured Europe and America, a debate which attracted widespread attention by discussing the color problem of a "White Australia." Ramage has written for the "Socialist Review", the leading English socialist monthly, to which J. Ramsay MacDonald is a regular contributor...
...third speaker, John Ramage, is a student of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is active in national as well as university politics, having been secretary of the local organization of the British Labor Party. Ramage was a member of the debating team which met the Australian team touring Europe and America on the "White Australia" issue. The debate was presided over by the Right Honorable L. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, and attracted widespread attention as a statement of the color problem in Australia...
...profession of chiropody. The rush of events involves pearls, hurricanes, shipwreck, Catholicism, natives of Australia, primitive rites, a heroine of dusky beauty and high intelligence, and yet, strange as it may seem, the hero is a chiropodist. He made his fortune caring for feet in London and the Australian goldfields, and it was with his knives that he later redeemed imperfect pearls at Droone, the mythical antipode where he became a dark little power...