Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constructive Criticism Committee of the Business School, since its inauguration in the spring of 1922, has been able to render signal service to members of the school and correct many faults and objections which were made. Of the eighteen odd criticisms received by the committee definite action was taken on all but one. Among the more important changes made were the standardization of notepaper, reorganization of the report writing system, better lighting in the Library, the adoption of anonymous grading of reports, and the revising of proctors' duties...
...what extent this feeling may extend is largely a matter of opinion and only the result of November 7th will show whose judgment is correct...
...General Dawes' diagnosis of the trouble was correct, his prescription is even more valuable: "I wish some of the men here would start out to call a spade a spade, and take his successive lickings at the hands of the political bosses. I can promise him a career of statesmanship, the only career worthy of an honest man's ambition...
...comments, to be sure, arouse an interest in those who read them to know the name of the author; but the interest is one not skin to admiration and usually find, expression in somewhat vigorous language. This though a third marginal commentator finds the space to add: "Crude but Correct...
...this is a relatively old story, but the worst is yet to come:-Since infinity is a circle, eternity-which is merely time, infinite-is also a circle. This does not sound so startling, but consider the consequences of the idea, if it is correct-the past and the future may meet. What is to come may be the same as what has been. Distinction between "will be" and "has been" is useless. The future is the past, the past the future, and the present a combination of the future and the past. A. D. runs into...