Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cent of the first year men taking the course. Although comments were largely directed against the amount of reading, a possible explanation of the objections lies in the figures released by University Hall, showing that four-fifths of the total course enrollment of 500 received C-or lower at mid-years...
...several fields. Although the personal relationship between physician and patient suffers in group practice, the saving in time and cost more than counterbalances this loss. The enormous reduction in overhead expense, caused by the elimination of duplication in laboratory equipment and office space, can serve both to make possible lower fees for patients and a relatively higher and more stable income for the physician...
...among the lower income groups of the population, particularly in the rural areas, that collective medicine finds its most crying need. While state hospitals and charitable institutions have made enormous strides in the past, more frequent medical care in virtually every part of the country is a sine qua non for a rise in the standards of national health. Only through well-equipped clinics, which in many cases will have to receive state subsidies, can our humbler citizens afford expert, specialized consultation. Those who furiously denounce all group practice as "undemocratic" and "socialistic" are still living in the Horse...
...Glory that was Greece" to the intellectual proletariat. The can only sit at their desks and hope that some students will be willing to gamble three courses on a pretty sure bet,--but three courses in a crowded schedule is a big ante. A great many men would rather lower the ante and take a smaller return...
...everyone is an Anglophile. Which is to say that there will be reverberations of protest against this report from a large body of graduates and undergraduates. Like a measure to lower tariffs, it strikes at the roots of vested interests. Particularly disgruntled will be the minor sports athlete who will not easily give up his "H" for a House letter tossed in his direction as a sop. If he is a wrestler or soccer man, he might in the future to be more than propitiated by the elevation of his sport to a major status, provided this action was justified...