Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seldom that a business editor of a publication is ever noticed by the temperamental members of the literary board, that an invitation to review the work of the latter cannot be passed by. It may be reasonable to assume that the business editor represents the point of view of the average undergraduate reader who peruses the magazine...
...idea of greater intercourse among nations as a cure for world ills found its widest acceptance; and the generosity of people on both sides of the ocean established a considerable number of exchange studentships. Since that time, other interests than purely philanthropic ones have bestirred themselves, and while these latter awards are less completely educational in purpose than the earlier, they likewise offer a pleasing example of what in 1919 was called international good will...
...planned that next year only two undergraduates will sit on the Governing Board, the undergraduate vice-president and the chairman of the Debating Union. Grimm holds the latter office this year and, with the advice and consent of the Governing Board, will appoint his successor next fall...
Pupils, then must be "encouraged to utilize their own peculiarities of response to subject matter." They must not learn by rote. In disparaging this latter method, which he finds still all too prevalent Dr. Dewey has said: "Much work in [an ordi-nary] school consists in setting up rules by which pupils are to act of such a sort that even after pupils have acted they are not led to see the connection between the result?say the answer?and the method pursued. So far as they are concerned, the whole thing is a trick and a kind of miracle...
Wednesday's newspapers found copy a-plenty in the motor world, where chance brought it about that at the same time as the abolition of a nuisance of ten years standing, the greatest consolidation in the history of motors was completed. The latter is doubtless of more ultimate importance than is the small cut in automobile prices made possible by the removal of the war tax. The advantages of merging in business have been put to a long enough test so that now there is no general cry of a populace fearing control by the trusts whenever such an important...