Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that instructors in small courses are judges in their own cause. It is not that they are unfit to judge impartially of scholarship. No one can suggest this. The difficulty is that their marking the abilities of the students they teach makes it impossible for those students to discuss their work with them without feeling that they may be either corrupting their judges or giving themselves away. Could not there be a division of the work of teaching and evaluating the result of teaching, merely to make the instructor more accessible? R. W. Hale...
Last week patients in Chicago's Frances E. Willard Hospital pushed their buzzers without response. Because the hospital's business manager had refused to discuss a request to raise their wages from $25 to $40 per month, 25 nurses had struck for one hour. For this they were discharged...
Your issue of April 9 states that the Economy Act of 1933 "authorized the President to ... weed out [veterans] who were drawing compensation for injuries not even remotely connected with the War," and it then proceeds to discuss the Senate's action in overriding the President's veto on the apparent assumption that only such limited ''weeding out" had been done. Nothing could be further from the truth. Had this been the extent to which Administration action went on veterans' compensation there never would have been a back-fire in Congress, nor any public demand...
...discuss the extension of the voting privilege to college men, politically minded students will gather in the Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock Friday evening, under the auspices of the Liberal Club. As a result of the proceedings it is expected that a petition will be drafted, asking other colleges to participate in the movement...
Josef A. Schumpeter, professor of Economics, will speak before the Freshmen tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock in the Upstairs Common Room on the topic "Economic Nationalism in Modern Europe." He will discuss the origins and effects of some of the national policies which are being adopted in the present economic conflict...