Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Potential undergraduate members of the University will not receive the news of an increase in the tuition fee with endless cheers. They will wish to know why an institution with so large an endowment cannot keep its tuition fee down to a level within the reach of everyone who wishes to take advantage of its peculiar educational traditions. They will probably feel that they are being made to bear an additional expense which is properly not theirs, and they will wonder why the authorities find it necessary to raise the tuition fifty per cent in five years--from two hundred...
With one grand slash of the pen, the professor reduces all mankind to a single dead level. "There is no such thing," says he, "as an inheritance of capacity, talent, temperament, mental constitution and characteristics. These things depend on training." It has always been thought that environment and training are important, but it has also been suspected that if a child's father was a moron and his mother an imbecile, the chances were strongly against his becoming a Plato, a Carlyle, or even a Dr. Frank Crane. It is reassuring to have Professor Watson's statement that every...
...Everyone knows," said President Neilson, "that the level of accomplishment of our institutions is kept down more by the number of misfits than by any other one cause, with the possible exception of the scarcity of good teachers. ... I realize the force of the plea that a board of trustees should pay for their own mistakes, but is it they who pay? ... I am inclined to think that early retirement on a pension would in many cases be better economy. . . . But this is a rare practice and needs nerve on the part of an administrator...
...usual exhibit. Barring minor gossip concerning changes in models and the likelihood of future prices, there was no news. Then suddenly a leading make of quality cars announced price reductions on closed cars ranging from $640 to $840 which would bring the prices of these models down to a level with those for open vehicles. Another make of quality cars adopted a similar policy...
...enough decent limericks to fill a book--George Eernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, and others to the contrary notwithstanding. Mr. Reed is courageous; but, although his volume is not yet on sale; it is a good wager that the average of his selections will fall considerably below the poetic level of those delectable lines on "The Young Plumber of Leigh", which Mr. Bennett, if correctly quoted in the international book Review, puts forward as his favorites...