Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Meanwhile the University team deserves all the encouragement and moral support possible. It is facing a difficult situation. It had no sooner recovered from the loss of Captain Ayres and from unfortunate individual injuries, when this last bolt came out of a clear sky. If the team can get along for a few days on good wishes and undergraduate backing, such spirit should be accorded with full heart; and if the team emerges victorious at the end of the season, that team will be counted one of the bravest in the history of Harvard sport...
...information they import, and those which give ability to solve problems. The latter class, which includes such subjects as the classics and mathematics, is most useful to the lawyer, while courses in economic theory, which belongs to both classes, are also useful. The ability to write and speak clear English is also essential. College law courses, except those in international law, are apt to be confusing...
...feature will be the use of long tables instead of the small round ones, in order to facilitate the serving, and that the tables may be ready in time. Men are requested to come between 8 and 8.15 o'clock, in order that the room may be clear until that hour...
...text is to contain subject matter that would be clear to the candidate in English version, without reference to the rest of the text...
This inefficiency was recently brought out strikingly in a test applied in the Graduate School of Business Administration. That this incapacity for clear expression should appear so markedly in the Business School, is even more surprising, for only graduates of approved colleges,--men representing the upper strata of mental ability--are accepted. The tests were not difficult. A series of reports was assigned the first-year class in marketing, and each report was turned over to the English department for criticism and correction. The results were astonishing. On the first assignment seventy-nine per cent. failed to write even fair...