Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary for us to give careful attention to ways and means of reducing unnecessary failures, improving the quality of instruction, adjusting instruction to the needs of the individual, and treating the Freshman as a whole. Only in this way can we hope to place the Freshman year on a level with that of the upper three years, in which the General Examinations, tutorial system, and now the House plan have done so much to improve the intellectual and social life of the upper classmen...
...falling world market the Board bought Chicago wheat around 76? per bu., pegged the domestic price at that leve. George S. Milnor, president of Grain Stabilization Corp., declared: "Domestic conditions do not justify lower prices and this company will continue . . . to maintain the present or a higher level...
Winnipeg wheat, out in the world marked, slumped 26? to 28? per bu. under the Chicago level. Liverpool prices, normally 15? per bu. above the Chicago price, were 15? below, at a 1896 low record. No on, not even Critic Coolidge, could say that price-fixing of wheat was not working at least temporarily...
...first would be "an historical approach to the problems of philosophy from the point of view of the men who wrote" the great philosophical works. This course would be Philosophy A revamped and open only to fairly mature undergraduates who can think abstractly and come up to the level of philosophy and not demand that the presentation be brought down to the level of their development. A second course would present the student who has no interest in philosophy with a survey of the problems with which philosophy deals, and familiarize him with the philosophic approach. This course would...
Sometimes crawling at a walking pace along the narrow, level path past the cots, sometimes swooping at 30 m. p. h. around the steep sides of the great bowl built of spruce boards in Madison Square Garden, bicycle riders raced in the 40th International Six-Day Race. Old Reggie MacNamara, a champion twelve years ago and still strong though no longer fast, was entered; so was big, blond, popular Charles Winter; Gaetano Belloni's wild mane of crinkly hair pushed out above his handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road...