Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American system of intercollegiate contests. It is a recognition of the effectiveness and benefits of our system, and also a reputation of those who regard intercollegiate games as an ovil influence. If the Germans, after a study characteristically profound, find that our athletic system may serve as a model for theirs, we may safely conclude that the American colleges have developed an institution from which the students and the colleges are deriving great advantages...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "A Model of the Ether." Mr. D. L. Webster. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...party will get off a rough line when it finally disembarks onto dear old Peddock's. Trunks to cover the larger limbs can be purchased for a song from the ship's Steward. Bemis was the model, and all are assured of a perfect fit when they try on their pairs of Essentials...
...theory and fact are widely separated. We generally believe and the English public believes also that city government in England is efficient because it is in the control of the best men elected by the people. But an investigator, armed with the thought that the council is not a model body, finds that in well-governed boroughs it is a mere check on the rule of permanent experts, and that in poorly governed boroughs the experts are under the control of a powerful council...
...Howe treated his subject from two main points of view, that of the state and that of the municipality. Taking Oregon as his model, he showed the results that have been obtained by making the people initial in and responsible for the welfare of the state. First the people secured the power of popular initiative in legislation, and then proceeded to use that power. The legislature, though pledged, would not vote for direct primaries, and so the people drafted their own bill and forced it through. As a result, state officers are nominated by the people and adopt their...