Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other was the opposition of the Catholic Church, which has been most vociferous in denouncing Federal control of education. But the pressure for Federal aid had become so great that a year ago President Roosevelt appointed an Advisory Committee on Education to study the matter. As its chairman he chose University of Chicago's hard-working Floyd Wesley Reeves, now on leave from the University as personnel consultant to TVA. Last week the Committee made its report, removed 'the two stumbling blocks...
...American Council on Education's George F. Zook. Most significant about-face was made by the third, the Rev. George Johnson, director of education of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. For the Committee had won Catholic support of Federal aid by recommending that States be allowed, if they chose, to give part of the Federal money to parochial schools...
...expert; he scarcely made good sense. He advocated 50-watt bulbs for night driving instead of the present 30-watt bulbs. Immediately any reader of high school intelligence wants to know how blinding glare can be reduced by doubling the illumination. And this very essential point Mr. Roper chose to ignore...
Most of the journalists are choosing economics for their field of study, a complication of the choices on the applications reveal. This result was predicted in a poll taken by a large New York newspaper of its staff members. Twenty-four of them chose economics; History; one, English literature; one, three, English composition; two, U. s. history; one, English Literature; one Spanish; one, zoology; one, mathematics; one, business management; one, ethics...
Both organizations pay lip service to the lofty ideal of Free Inquiry, but with uncrring judgment the student body has given its patronage, and not a few of its nickles and dimes, to the group which chose to burlesque this ideal. But this is not all. Once gathered before the rostrum of James and Santayana, they pilloried the woman who stood there. With conduct that smacked of Union, Square they threw courtesy to the winds, catcalled, heiled, and howled...