Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to question 11, I doubt that many students would take advantage of such an arrangement or would seriously benefit from it. Those who are not benefited by tutorial work are often not benefited by class instruction...
Eliot attributes the greatness of both Shelley and Keats to the promise they showed, rather than their actual accomplishments. "In the case of Shelley one is giving him the benefit of the doubt; the letters of Keats, on the other hand, prove, I am sure, that he was headed in the right direction...
There is no doubt that the benefits derived from tutorial work vary widely and if some easy administrative test of selection could be devised which would restrict the tutorial privilege to those who would make the best use of it, I should favor its adoption. The movement now under way for a "pass degree" with optional tutorial work, however, seems to me exceedingly dangerous, partly because it involves a lowered standard for the unawakened and lazy, but, more important still, because it strikes directly at what I consider the great merit of the present system: the discovery of latent powers...
...upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal. Japan, rattling her sword in Manchuria as never before, is in strained relations with the U. S. as a result of the Stimson doctrine of nonrecognition of Manchukuo. In Tokyo there was no popular doubt that the massing of U. S. warships in the Pacific was a naval gesture against Japan. But diplomacy still kept a smiling front. Last month when the question of the U. S. maneuvers was raised in the Japanese Diet's budget committee, Foreign Minister Uchida vetoed as "improper...
...Chicago. I'm tired of loafing. After seven months of it I have decided that I can't stand it any longer. It isn't any loafing job or honorary title that I am taking. It is one of the big jobs in the country, no doubt about...