Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pomeroy remarked that argumentative discussion and original journalism are not as much in evidence in America as in England. That the first part of this conclusion is justified has been obvious recently at Oxford-Harvard debates; the American is formal where the Englishman is personal. The present critic is correct, also, in his analysis. With the departure of the toddy-bowl and the clay pipe has gone the American student's tendency to foregather of evenings, and talk endlessly of shoes and ships and sealing-wax. And the pace is possibly faster in the American University than at Oxford...
...regard careful English as sinister affectation. Their view seems to be that one can talk as badly and incorrectly as he choose and yet save his country, to say nothing of the domestic hearth, while one who pronounces the language so that it is at once melodious and correct has a certain meretrioiousness in his composition of which freemen must aware. It is one more case of the divine right of incorrectness. The Transcript...
...important thing rather than his capacity in the first form or at any other more or less remote period. In any case, the Committee on Admissions will use its own judgment in the end, and the multiplication of tests and evidence, especially if every test must be discounted to correct for all sorts of human variables, can only confuse rather than aid. There is no reason why a single set of satisfactory examinations cannot be devised on which the Committee may solely rely...
Through a misunderstanding with the Insurance Company $121 was stated as the amount due on a minimum policy of $250 if the premiums were paid in a lump sum. The correct amount for a lump sum premium payment, on a $250 policy is $145.13, or a saving of $106.87 in 25 years...
...Comimttee was reported to have discovered that Germany has exported abroad $2,000,000,000 of capital. Nothing "leaked out" as to the plans which the Committee has to bring this capital back to the country, and it is doubtful if the figure of the exported capital is correct...