Word: extent
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Tutorial instruction has always been considered a key part of a Harvard education, the perfect balance to the formality of the lecture system. Because of the extent of tutorial before the war, no one could accuse the College of divorcing the student from his teacher. It was not until after the war, with the curtailment of tutorial, that everyone began to talk about impersonality as a problem of Harvard education. As the Poskanzer Report pointed out, an education based entirely on lectures has many disadvantages...
...CRIMSON has a responsibility to ascertain the facts before allowing an unprincipled, invidious, irresponsible statement to reach the public. Once such a statement is published, no matter what the extent of rebuttal and denial, personal damage is still done, as is well indicated by the attacks upon public figures by irresponsible individuals in Washington. It must be quite apparent to the CRIMSON that it has become party, innocently or otherwise, to the mud-slinging attack instigated by thoughtless members of the community; a shibboleth joyously taken up by other individuals whose only contribution to Harvard is constant, vicious, destructive criticism...
...promoted the Telegraph's biggest prize, the Churchill wartime memoirs, a project shared also by LIFE and the New York Times. New Editor Coote plans no major changes in the Telegraph's impartial news coverage or its Conservative editorial policy. Says he: "We have succeeded to some extent in being serious without being dull. I hope we shall never fall into the disastrous policy of trying to be [editorially] impartial...
...disturbed, madam, to the extent...
Blue Hills Meteorologist Wallace E. Howell once again yesterday disclaimed credit for the extent of a heavy rainfall in the New York City watershed area...