Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of your questions are misleading. I heartily endorse the suggestion of establishing two degrees. I doubt whether we should follow Oxford and Cambridge in placing virtually the whole responsibility for a student's instruction upon his tutor, but I think we might well place at least a third to a half of the responsibility there, in the case of honors men, and not much less than a third in the case of any student who, for any reason, is thought worthy of tutorial instruction. Instruction which involves drill, as in elementary work generally, can be done best in courses...
Please understand that I doubt the value of such inquiries as this anyone except these who conduct them. Probably they are amused but just what else is expected...
...hectic years have revealed the weaknesses of the banking system in the United States. Mr. Mills blamed the first thousand failures on England's leaving the gold standard. Yet not one of England's banks failed despite her impoverished condition. That the R.F.C. helped certain banks there is no doubt, but Mr. Hoover's statements have been mislaying. The small banks were not helped to the extent that he claimed. Mary a former staunch Republican realizes the, fatuousness of having trusted the departing administration. Audacity and insincerity comparable to Tammany's might have provoked admiration, but puerile blunders, too blatantly...
...economic change. The technocrats spend their time in drawing up charts to show that the price system is doomed and that unemployment will continue even in good times. But there are so many difficulties in getting accurate figures from which conclusions may be drawn that one is inclined to doubt the statements of the technocrats. When we hear reports that their figures on the increased production of steel per labor hour in this country during the last 50 years are 20 times greater than the actual increase, one is led to believe that this theory is not the result...
...medical precaution, the training table in such sports as football, track, and crew is valuable, but without doubt eating and loafing in the Varsity Club will contribute neither to House spirit nor to scholastic enterprise. The training table in the hallowed environment of the Varsity Club strengthens the morale and comradeship of a team, more than would be the case in a House dining hall. But it should lot be so much on this basis as on that of introducing an alien element into the House dining halls that the training tables should be sent back to the Varsity club...