Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, a modified selective system will in the future be employed in the lower brackets of the class. The ruling is as follows: ". . . much weight will be attached to character, personality, and promise, as well as to scholarly attainments. Satisfactory showing in the last of these qualifications alone is not of itself sufficient to guarantee admission." What apparently establishes a sharp departure from all existing precedents is qualified in the next sentence by the statement that "the Committee, however, will give, as heretofore, preference to all candidates qualifying in the regular way. . . whose examination average is unquestionably good (75 percent...
...noon my lower extremities can carry me to Semitic Museum 1 to hear Professor Hooton discuss their evolution in Anthropology I he has evolved to the legs, which will be his subject today. "Qualities of Character" may interest me enough at 2 o'clock to lead me to Psychology A in Emerson D but my own character is too often weak at that perilious after-luncheon hour...
Macroscopically (to the naked eye) the whole brain is divided crosswise into two unequal, grossly wrinkled parts. The rear and lower part is the cerebellum, the chief duty of which is to regulate the automatic reflexes and movements, such as walking. The upper and fore part is the cerebrum, where thinking is done. It is by far the larger...
...ranking undergraduate to the Pierian spring. For success over and above the minimum necessary to place a composition course on the standard level, an able instructor is prerequisite. Such a teacher would soon discover which of his pupils sought to shade the indispensable C close to its lower margin. For these men, administrative rigors of quantity and time are available...
...solution for these problems in Europe as well as the resulting problem of super-competition in America is mass production. By mass production of sufficient magnitude we can lower prices and raise wages so that the working people will be able to have an ample share of the comforts of life. It may seem visionary to expect that wages will be raised with the lowering of prices, but higher wages become an inevitable part of even a selfish scheme of mass production. For the producers must have consumers for their products and they can best be assured of them...