Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates for the next league debate will be called out when the midyear examinations are over. The new system of selecting the debaters by means of the round-table plan, which dispenses to a large extent with the old method of choosing the speakers by means of tryouts, will be used in the next debating competition...
Such payments are the keystone of the Dawes Plan and offer the only possible way that Germany can transfer credits so huge that their movement, if made in gold, would disrupt international exchange. The frauds detected, last week, amounted to giving "short measure" to the reputed extent of $12,000,000. To understand how this was done, recall the normal method of paying reparations in kind...
...novel, Mr. Lincoln's most recent book is rather a disappointment. It is well enough done, but almost to the extent of being overdone, for the story has a tendency to lag. The atmosphere of the plot is so pronounced that the reader from the beginning gains a fairly accurate impression of the ultimate outcome of it, while at the same time the characters are portrayed so sharply that they become almost automatons, and lose the charm of their individuality. The net result is that the reader, in addition to knowing what the story is going to be, knows also...
...obtaining indefinite results, Perhaps Professor Babbitt, in placing most of the blame upon the professor, is too lenient toward the student. For it is only by mutual cooperation that any definite goal can possibly be attained. If the undergraduate is not willing to free himself to a greater extent from the exacting demands of outside activities and devote himself to "the problem of the inner life", cease to be the specialist and become more the man of leisure, Professor Babbitt's Utopia of Socratic standardization is plainly impossible. He advocates a "classic restraint" as the only solution to the hectic...
...York Times, has prompted E. H. Rowe 1L, debating team coach, to select the Harvard debating teams hereafter by a method unique in the history of debating at Harvard, it was announced in a statement last night to the CRIMSON. The new system will eliminate, to a large extent, the old method of holding a series of tryouts to determine the personnel of the team. Instead of this procedure, a number of round table discussions will be held, which all candidates will be required to attend. At these discussions the candidates, assisted by the coach, will draw up in organized...