Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second factor is the inadequacy of school preparation in essentially elementary subjects. Languages, to take the outstanding example, are, above all branches of learning, peculiarly adaptable to secondary school teaching methods. If a student is ever to learn a foreign tongue, he most certainly should do so when he is under the individual supervision and painstaking care of a secondary school teacher. Languages in colleges are only well taught in the most advanced stages for the obvious reason that there is neither the time nor the money to provide adequate instruction in this field. A clear example of the futility...
...this treatment of his State by the U. S. Boldly he proclaimed that Michigan, under its police power, would proceed with its Commission. He ordered his Bufeau of Public Safety to receive bids for the whole project. He announced: "Michigan will not delay. . . . Radio is a very important factor in apprehending criminals. ... It behooves those,in authority to provide all proved methods of catching crooks...
Schwartz was the outstanding performer of the meet taking three firsts for 15 points and establishing a new mark for individual point scorers to shoot at. He was also the deciding factor in establishing the team winner for his individual total gave Northwestern a big preponderance which even the balanced Michigan aggregation couldn't overcome. The Purple piled up 30 points to the Wolverines 24. Rutgers pulled up in third place with 17, leading Princeton, Stanford, and Columbia who had 15, 12, and 10 respectively. Dartmouth and Pennsylvania garnered four points each, while Brown, Fordham, Iowa, and Minnesota completed...
...present undergraduate body throughout the United States will in a few short years be a large factor in the administration of civic and governmental undertakings. It is therefore highly important that they have some understanding of such problems as early as possible...
...school is dependent upon its alumni to share the burden of the teaching; receiving a nominal sum of fifty dollars a year, these men contribute their time with an obvious loss to their practice. There are very few full-time instructors. In all Science, research is the dominating factor, and it is in this particular that the Graduate School suffers most. Not only is there very little apparatus for any sort of highly specialized research in advanced fields, even the rudimentary work of the beginner is greatly hampered by the antiquated equipment at his disposal...