Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...started early next week, under the direction of this Board. The clubs are not primarily social; they are created to afford members of the Law School an opportunity to get practice in the preparation and argument of law cases in as realistic a manner as possible through the medium of moot courts. In the first year the arguments are entirely intra-club, and each club must hold a certain number of trials to qualify for the Ames Competition, which starts in the second year. The 32 second year clubs which have qualified this year, will compete against each other throughout...
Such an accomplishment ought to teach this much at least: that the world judges the extent that we are educated by what we know, and not by what we have studied; and while the university is the ideal medium through which an education may be secured, it is not the only one, and we can continue our training to good advantage after we have left our alma mater. Michigan Daily...
...foremen contending that certain other prices allowed the basic rate to be earned too easily, which tended to laying down on the job and consequent loss of production. Here again, the application of the plan was brought out and continues to the present to be a very satisfactory medium for obtaining justice for both sides...
...plan provides also for the participation of representatives in the adjustment of individual piece prices. Here again, it proves to be the only successful medium for showing the facts to both sides. Now, whenever a price is questioned and a time study is to be made of the operation, the operative has the privilege of requesting the presence of his representative to see that he gets a square deal. In this way the tendency to deceive by stalling time was overcome, for, when shown up to his own representative, the operative has no comeback. All suspicion that a biased judgment...
...value of odds and ends. It seems to be a general impression that a student can take a slight dab or economics, a dash of sociology, a salting of rhetoric and literature, a minute sprinkling of precious stones, creative listening, fine arts, and what not, and a very medium dose of languages, and come out quite the University concoction. Glimpses and vistas, not real understanding, are being recommended for the "broad" college course. The student is getting the merest taste of the elementals of everything, and dropping the threads where they begin. His thinking comes to a halt where...