Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan would serve two further ends: It would discourage parrotlike repetition in examinations of facts heard in lectures, and would encourage the more able students to higher efforts. It is, of course, understood that the mid- year and final examinations would demand thorough knowledge of the work in the lecture periods...
...appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally demand her further expansion in the Adriatic and the Mediterranean; England and France with new interests and possessions, are naturally less ready than ever to permit the growth of a common rival, or to allow their own possessions to slip from their grasp in the name of any such principle as "self...
...empires. England, rather free with promises, about Egyptian independence during the war, is once more closing fast her grip on the country of the Nile. She claims special interest, and intends to enforce it, in the Egyptian army and frontiers. Egypt's hesitation about acceding to this demand will avail her nothing. More logically than ever Egypt is an essential link in Britain's Empire. Not only the Suez and the sea passage to India, but the protectorates in Traz and Palestine, the virtual protectorate in Persia, all these make control over Egypt doubly important to Great Britain...
...Myroot, in 1893 and at present librarian of Oberlin College; J. T. Henderson, president of Oberlin College; Andrew C. Comings, bookseller; Rev. Henry Tenney of Webster Grove, Mo. They adopted resolutions giving thanks for the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, called upon the U. S. people to demand stricter enforcement of them, to resist any attempt at their repeal or nullification. This time their proceedings aroused few smiles or sneers...
...whole theory of student government. Heretofore in most colleges the Student Council has been a pretty toy, an honorary roll of prominent undergraduates, the efficiency of which is subjugated to its glory. If adopted at Princeton and enforced with the rigidity which in its present form it seems to demand, the system will cease to be only symbolical of student cooperation and will be in reality a vital factor in the daily life of the college. The instigators of the project at Princeton appear to be firmly convinced that student government has won its spurs by a period of restrained...