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...grade in the course. I found the marking fair and impartial. The reading assigned was not onerous, tests were few, and essays often replaced hour examinations. The midyear and final examinations gave a wide latitude of choice in the questions, and the papers were not red-pencilled for meticulous factual errors...
...might least expect it--Soviet Russia. Mr. Hopkins was speaking to his students of the great clamor recently heard in America against the disclipinary requirements of our college curricula. Much criticism has been voiced, he said, against all those subjects which call for painstaking study and mastery of exact factual data. The labor of learning foreign languages, for example, has been under fire, on the ground that it is not worth the trouble. The whole system of giving "marks" or grades has been attacked, as tending to put our students under too much competitive pressure to attain a high, scholastic...
...salutes, President Rehn showed William Ormonde Thompson, Clarence Darrow's onetime partner, all over the Court, now handsomely installed in Prussia's onetime Diet Building. He explained to Mr. Thompson how much better Nazi justice is than the justice it replaced. Take evidence, for example. "The need for factual evidence," Guest Thompson learned, "in many cases has been due to the erroneous reasoning of the jurists, and therefore should be eliminated! The guilt or innocence of a man is to be determined by whether or not he is dangerous to the existence of the State...
...would have the possibility of higher wages investigated, he kept his word. He appointed a committee of NRA economists to find out whether the industry could stand higher wages without further boosting prices, further reducing the demand for its goods. The investigators answered: "Under existing conditions there is no factual or statistical basis for any general increase in cotton textile code wage rates...
...from the Emergency Banking Act (March 1933) to the Labor Dispute Act (June 1934). Collier's staff began the project two months ago, only to discover that the ground had already been ably covered by Congressional Intelligence, Inc, a Washington reporting agency in the latter's volume, Factual History of the Roosevelt Regime. Since the volume went to only a limited number of $10 subscribers, Collier's felt that the field of political interest was still large, especially as a national election was coming in November. It made a deal with Congressional Intelligence to condense and reprint...