Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Situation. The Senate had attached to the Deficiency bill an amendment by Georgia's dry Harris providing the President with an extra $24,000,000 for prohibition enforcement. Secretary Mellon opposed this, because the money did not pass through the Budget; because it only put more agents in the field without increasing the auxiliary branches of enforcement (courts, Coast Guard, Civil Service Commission, etc.); because a survey of needs, he thought, should come first...
These things were told the 20th annual convention of Merchant Tailors, assembled in Philadelphia last week; by Tailor Wilbur W. Stewart. Tailor Stewart believes in restrictive immigration but suggests that the Department of Labor, instead of admitting unskilled aliens who make a livelihood only with difficulty, survey the labor field with a view to relieving special trades suffering from skilled labor shortages...
...wife. Nothing would do but that he must hop in with them and rush to thank H. R. H. for stopping at his house. When embarrassed Challenger Frank came apologetically up to Challengee Wales the latter wrung his hand warmly, and said a moment later to a charity field secretary, "See that you do something for that old chap...
...this particular case, and probably in the case of a similar plan being adopted by other departments of instruction, there attaches to the examination the character of a qualifying test. Passage of this test admits one to the privilege of specialization, and implies a comprehension of a field of study so hastily covered that understanding deeper than that needed for a clever student to pass an examination is a doubtful quantity...
...student with three full years to absorb his entire subject for examination at the end of his course will have sufficient background by his Senior year to attempt a specialized job in the form of a thesis, while he is finishing his general work on his field. Each portion of his work should profit from association with the other. The final divisional examination then becomes a true test of general knowledge clarified and made more valuable by concentrated study of a portion...