Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columbia University undergraduates have a real point, though not a real grievance, when they criticize the practice of handing over the freshman and sophomore classes chiefly to young instructors with "specialized interests." The critics insist that beginning undergraduates need the stimulus of older and experienced teachers more than they do the specialized guidance of the younger experts. Undeniable are the advantages derived from the various forms of experimentation with the tutorial system, the separate "house" system, the system that substitutes guidance for dictation, and mastery of the art of how to seek out knowledge for the injection of knowledge...
...President when they thought they detected a cancellationist note in his Super Plan as read to them at the caucus. Therefore surprise was occasioned last week when the White House announced that when the year's moratorium in intergovernmental debts expires, the United States will not insist that European payments be resumed, except on the basis of the capacity of the debtor nations to pay. In return, the U. S. will expect thumping decreases in armaments from favored nations...
...first issue of the year, the Harkness Hoot, Yale's newest critical publication, devotes itself to an attack on the House Plan as it is here at Harvard, and as it will be at Yale. Save for the educational benefits, which the editors of the Hoot insist on regarding as accidental by-products, the entire system is denounced as a waste of money and a "pandering to the unfit and immature...
...practically sole financiers of the company the Brothers Ludington might well be proud. But they would be first to insist that all credit go to two young men who sold them the plan and then made it work: brawny, handsome Gene Vidal, West Point halfback of 1916-20, onetime Army flyer: and squint-eyed, leathery Paul ("Dog") Collins, War pilot, oldtime airmail pilot...
When she signed an RKO Pathé contract in 1929 Constance was shrewd enough to insist on a ten-week holiday every year. Recently she spent this holiday working for Warner Brothers at $30,000 a week, highest salary ever paid to a cinemactress. Last week she left Hollywood for a trip to Europe with a quick stop-over in Manhattan. Her companion on train and boat (adjacent staterooms) was the Marquis de la Falaise et de la Coudray, estranged husband of Gloria Swanson...