Word: delay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes to college with a definite interest in Economics, the delay of a year is wasteful. For the student who has no such definite interest but who contemplates choosing Economics as a field of concentration, the postponement of the study to the Sophomore year is still more unfortunate. The average Freshman, wholly unfamiliar with the subject and its teaching, is inevitably acting in the dark when he elect Economics as his field, as evidenced by the large number of men who transfer to or from the field in their Sophomore or Junior year...
Recognizing the waste of time involved in the delay of a year and the difficulty of choosing a field of concentration, the department this year admitted, as an experiment, some twenty selected men to Economics A. The records of these men so far and the experience of others who have taken the course indicate that its difficulty in many instances has been unduly exaggerated. It is true that the emphasis is on thinking rather than on memory, but there are many Freshmen who could master the subject without difficulty and who would benefit thereby...
...Myers v. The United States, 58 C. Cls. 199, the Court held (April 2, 1923) that the President alone had no power to remove the plaintiff but inasmuch as Myers had been guilty of delay (laches) in asserting his rights he was not entitled to recover. The case was then taken to the Supreme Court...
Such reactions were only natural; far from being hidden, they peep forth from every line of the report. Seen in such a light, the restrictions appear not arbitrary but just. There are bound to be divergences of opinion, but most fair-minded men will discount the past delay and sense that here they have received an intelligent, workable concession...
...this instance the Overseers did not consent that the Corporation should proceed to an election until February 25. They appointed a committee to confer with the Corporation about the definition of the president's duties and continued an inconclusive discussion of that question. It is difficult to explain this delay of nearly five months except on the theory that the Overseers were disturbed by a sense of impending change and a feeling of uncertainty. Questions of policy were implicitly bound up with the selection of the new president, and it could certainly be said that the issues were numerous...