Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond, speaking personally, is not himself particularly interested in Divisional Examinations--or any other sort for that matter. It has always been his endeavor to make of himself, so far as possible, a cultured individual, rather than a more or less perfect example of the plumber's art, which should, when the right tap is turned and the right chain pulled react in the customary and appropriate fashion. Of course, that will not provide him with a sheepskin, and he shall probably have to content himself for some time with goat hide...
Critics delight to dwell upon the alleged stereotyped form of modern education. They deplore the lack of "contact" of college courses with the current life of the time, saying that there is need of a keener recognition of the changing effect of world events on the subject-matter. While any drastically revolutionary remedy for such deficiency must be looked on with suspicion, a plan suggests itself which is encouraging in its simplicity. The plan is to interpolate the regular lectures or class-room discussion in such subjects as government or economics with timely discourses on important world problems. How many...
...dispose of their Wheeling stock. The New York Central and the B. & O. anticipated this order by transferring their stock to Allegheny Corp., Van Sweringen holding company. Objection might be taken to joint control of the Wheeling by three roads, but its control by one road is quite another matter...
...measuring pork production is to estimate the weight of pig litters at the age of six months. This system forms the basis of an annual nationwide contest, conducted by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, in which farmers pit themselves against each other in the matter of six-month-old litters, of a ton or more weight. Last week the results for 1928 were announced. Farmers in 30 states produced 492 ton-or-more litters, Pennsylvania winning with 65. Idaho had the heaviest litter-14 piglets totaling 4,156 pounds...
...nerves already raw from the public interest taken in his social battle in behalf of Mrs. Gann (TIME, April 15), the Vice President last week exploded on the matter of his Mayflower rent. Said he with hot feeling...