Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devoid of hope. Even while the language requirements remain as they are, more thought given to them before entering college should do much toward reducing some of these over-weighted courses. And as concerns those taken for distribution, more independence in choosing courses, coupled with the raising of the general average of competency in the section-men, will tend somewhat to overcome the disadvantage of being a mere seat-number in the eyes of the instructor...
...qualified have been uttered on every side; constructive analyses by those best qualified have been few and far between. While the list of subjects announced does not specifically include the stock market, there will be discussion of the outlook for various key industries as well as for business in general...
...national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found out what was going on. Any thriving magazine has a constant demand for back numbers. Thrifty, self-respecting publishers are at pains to recover all unsold or undelivered copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman, his First Assistant. Publishers were particularly agitated by the possibility that the Post Office was offering sales competition to authorized sales agents if. as the Kansas City advertisement said, there was "opportunity to purchase copies of current magazines at nominal cost...
Assistant Postmaster-General Coleman replied that the Department meant no harm to publishers, would watch carefully for any encroachment by the auctions on private business. The auctions continued on alternate Wednesdays through October, with publishers still vexed...
...Significance. As the branches of science become more complex, their interrelation becomes more evident, the general problems of science more clearly insoluble. In astronomy, physics, biology, lengthy strides have been made in the last 20 years toward the realization that man knows less and less about more and more. Scientists to whom science is more than an enthralling game are consequently ''turning back." the Pragmatists to Philosophy, the mystics to Religion...