Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief defect in tutorial work is its conflict with courses. Every student regards courses as more important (because of grades). Hence, the tuter cannot require very much written work or very much reading. But as a supplement to courses, the plan at present, especially with the aid of the Houses, seems to me to be working out very well. Probably it will never work at its best until grades in courses, hour exams, and course requirements are reduced or abolished...
...genealogical charts which have so often, of recent date, proclaimed an imitation of the form but scarcely the estimable ability of Mr. Galsworthy. Miss Bentley's story relates, to be brief, the textile history of Yorkshire during the nineteenth century. Of central interest, naturally, is the development of the conflict between capital and labor. And this is handled, as one might expect, through the use of conflicting families...
...Pescadores, the young Samurai's blood boiled with rage and shame. He had been apprenticed to a brewer of Shoyu (soy sauce), quit brewing to enter the Military Academy (where tuition was free), zealously prepared for what all Japan knew was coming, the Russo-Japanese War. This conflict Imperial Russia had made inevitable by "leasing" from Imperial China the Southern Manchurian peninsula which Japan's "Son of Heaven" had been forced to disgorge...
Fast, close play is anticipated when the Varsity polo team opens its season at the Commonwealth Armory tomorrow night, clashing with a powerful outfit from the 110th Cavalry. The Varsity has undergone intensive training all week, and is now primed for the coming conflict. F. S. Nicholas '33, who captains the Crimson team, will act as its mainstay at back; T. J. Davis '35 is expected to continue his brilliant play at No. 2; and W. C. McGuckin '34, who has recently recovered from an illness that kept him out of last week's play, is back...
Last week the following were news: Mutual expressions of admiration and gratitude were exchanged last week when John Daniel Hertz, 53, resigned as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee. Direct cause of his move was a conflict with President Adolph Zukor, 60 last week, over "the technical limitations upon the authority of various officers.'' Other important resignations from the company in recent months have included Sam Katz, onetime close Hertz ally. Sidney Kent, Jesse Lasky. Mr. Hertz entered Paramount's affairs 14 months ago at the "suggestion" of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers and creditors...