Word: depending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million dollars from Andrew Carnegie, he gave $2,000,000 to start the University of Atlanta. "The work of higher education," he said, "is not going to be surrendered to secularism. . . . To that Church at whose altars I receive the Christian gospel and sacraments, upon which surely I depend, I may safely entrust the things I possess...
Although the prospect is very enticing, the likelihood of a baseball season spent in Japan will depend in great part upon the record made by the University team next spring...
...into the civil service somewhere as the result of passing an examination, but for the young man to expect to gain a livelihood by holding political office would seem to me to be very undesirable. I should say that he ought to have some business on which he could depend for a living, and as he has an aptitude for it take such part in politics as he finds he can do without losing his means of livelihood. Otherwise he loses his independence...
...will the importance of being earnest be forgotten by those who stay behind. A student college-camp has already opened in the Catskills for the summer, a camp of "doers" who are resolved to depend upon no external stimulus for their vigorous thought but to lecture to each other on "problems of the day" that they are severally exercised about...
...most of our examinations are adapted to acertain little except knowledge, which tends to promote mere cramming; whereas the tests in the grass school of active life depend rather upon the ability to use information Surely examinations can be framed to measure not only knowledge, but the ability to comprehend and correlate what is known. In short, to test the grasp of a subject as a whole...