Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since 285, political science, economic history, and a minute special field, such as the Age of Hildebrand. There is also a viva voce examination held in public before a board of examiners. In addition to these university examinations almost all colleges have their own examinations, or "collections", at fairly frequent intervals, designed to keep their undergraduates to the mark or to serve as dress rehearsals for the final examinations...
...that the new Committee will make efforts to bring the adviser into closer relationship with his advisees. Among the projected changes is a system of regular hours to be kept by the adviser in which to meet his wards, as well as an attempt to make such meetings more frequent and more informal...
...Frequent critiques or essays are required by tutors in some fields, in the hope that work of the research type will be done for them. Too often this hope is disappointed, due rather to lack of time on the student's part than to disinclination. This is to be deplored, for with more time at his disposal the student could submit reports and small theses on various subjects, and comparison of these with ordinary examinations reveals in a minute their superiority of training. Put a student in the library with a keen interest in some subject on which he expects...
...president of that institution, far different though it be from that of Mussolini and Rivera. But too high a price may be paid for every 'good government.' Certainly if the superman fails and the mediocre man, not to mention the stupid incumbent who is not alas without frequent example in American academic offices arrives, then the Harvard faculties of today, like those of previous centuries may discover that there 'Is no working substitute for liberty,' and that 'chains' even though self-imposed must sooner or later be broken...
...show is booked again. He still gives carnivora to the general. But now the wildest beasts are those individuals who frequent the circus in droves and have been known to strike women in the stomach with their fists when frustrated in the attempt to poison themselves with lemonade?the male children under twelve...