Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that under this new constitutional practice the President should in every fourth year, insofar as seems reasonable, review the existing state of our national affairs and outline broad future problems, leaving specific recommendations for future legislation to be made by the President about to be inaugurated." Having settled that matter of precedent, Franklin Roosevelt settled down to what appeared to be almost such a workaday enumeration of the problems confronting the Government as Calvin Coolidge used to give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress...
...likely to carry much weight. The Justices of the Supreme Court have the Preamble and Article I of the Constitution already by heart. The Court long ago declared that the Preamble was only a declaration of pious hope conferring no power on the Federal Government. Furthermore, the particular subject matter, NRA, on which the President made his appeal, happened to be the one major New Deal project which no member of the Court, liberal or conservative, found constitutional. Thus the likelihood of a reversal is negligible...
...crux of the matter is that the normal undergraduate is lazy and if, for one reason or another, he can afford to let the tutoring school do his work for him, he probably will. As long as the net educational result is the same in either case, he should by all means be allowed this opportunity. Most of those utilizing the schools are probably not affected one way or the other, but a certain percentage of the college is entirely dependent on them. These men fail to take advantage of the opportunities offered them and abuse the freedom which should...
...setting a "critical grade" between the promising and the less promising, President Conant said that subject matter is of little importance, the examination level and the intrinsic capacity of the student, whose intellectual places in the world are predestined at least by the time they enter college, being the significant factors. The only important requisites of a liberal education, in addition to good teaching which brings out the intellectual capacity of each student, are concentration in a limited field as opposed to smatterings of information, and a stimulating atmosphere which promotes discussion between men of different departments...
...explained that it was not at all due to any dissatisfaction with the present disposition of posts, but a mere matter of policy designed to insure the University against the emergency of a shortage of janitors well sequainted with each House...