Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instructions on the examination papers often require that a question be answered briefly or in a definite number of words. One man will write on the question at full length or in twice as many words as the instructions specify. He will receive a satisfactory grade. Another man with equal knowledge of the answer will follow instructions explicitly and do the much harder task of keeping within the required bounds. His grade will suffer because of his briefness...
...should he the last, as we have declared repeatedly, to want "paid" players in college sports. But, like Dean Briggs, we are eager-for the day when the athlete can be granted at least equal advantages with his fellows, without calling forth charges of professionalism. That day will come only when the very idea of professionalism is made unthinkable by the unanimous sentiment of students and alumni every where...
...these qualities that his opinions on civilization are of value. The belief he here states is that of all social philosophies now featured Individualism is the only true one. By this he means American Individualism; the doctrine that allows every man, unrestricted by class strata or any prejudices, an equal opportunity with others to make his way in the world. It is not, as Mr. Hoover points out, a creed that holds out promises of Utopia or one that can be disseminated by catch phrases, but it is the very essence of freedom and the backbone of progress...
...vessels if it could obtain for them the American registry necessary to bring them to the terms of the Ocean Mail Act. By a special act of Congress this was permitted on condition that the American Line build, in American yards and according to navy specifications, two other ships, equal or superior to those purchased. The ships purchased from the British were renamed "New York" and "Philadelphia". The vessels built in this country were named "The St. Louis" and "The St. Paul". These four ships, made possible by subsidy, were the only merchant vessels of good speed and ocean going...
From the undergraduate point of view, it would seem superficially that the President's remarks had overlooked the broader college influences, outside of the classroom, which he himself would be quick to acknowledge as of almost equal importance, in the aggregate, with instruction itself. Perhaps we are wrong in thinking that the younger men, in respect to physique and character, are already at a disadvantage, and find themselves unable to reap a full harvest in the fields of "interests and activities." It is true that the present century is far slower in developing its youths than the past have been...