Word: entail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoped that large number of graduate members of the Society, who have been out of college for ten or more years, will register with the Secretary, as advisers are needed not only in every city of the country but also in every branch of engineering. The work will entail correspondence with the student and possible conferences, should the advisee be in the locality of the adviser. It is hoped also that graduate advisers will consult with friends and associates in broadening their own point of view in order to help a student...
...ability. That trust is not without foundation; this particular demonstration of it, nevertheless, appears at the present time likely to fallacy. If ever there were a time when the student should have the benefit of his tutor's advice it is during this coming period. Tutorial conferences need not entail tutorial reading in these three weeks--course reading will be sufficiently large to occupy the student; tutorial conferences do, however, offer opportunities wherein the student may approach his tutor for advice on his own attack on these periods. Obviously if the tutor directs in wholesale fashion the undergraduate's reading...
...light of such comments as these, and in that of fuller appreciation of just what the change will entail, a more complete estimate of its worth is now possible than when the news was first announced. The most significant revision that has been established is the realization that the change is so far merely nominal. Until it is accepted by the individual departments, it is entirely inoperative, and even then, it will apply only to those courses designated by the department...
Undergraduates voted against the proposal by a margin of 755 over 618. Their opposition seems to have been dictated by a belief that Junior divisionals as suggested would entail more work. Why so many of them should be concerned over this possibility, even granting their premise, is something of a mystery since a good part of the opposition would necessarily be immune from the regulations that govern distinction...
...deprivation of property in Harvard 2. At the same time Professor Elton is talking on the Memoirs and Letters of the time of George II upstairs in Harvard 6. One might easily be tempted to divide the hour between the two rooms if this did not entail losing a large part of it on a steep and creaky stairway...