Word: modicums
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...consider [Columbia's action] a step in the right direction, but believe that course is still one year too long. The way to teach journalism, we think, is not to teach it at all as a special, separate college course. . . . We speak from a modicum of experience in this matter. The newspaper organization of which this paper is a part founded the Medill School of Journalism. . . . The Medill School . . . was founded with the idea of training youngsters to become newspaper men and women. Naturally, the newspaper founding the school expected to have first choice from the cream of each...
...front pages and out of the public mind, its legislation has been allowed to be shaped by a handful of theoretical insurance advocates and a certain group of Democratic Barnums and bureaucrats each desirous to amend the bill in some regretable fashion in order to get a modicum of credit...
Professors Wiener and Magoun, in their Boston Herald briefs on the German-political-racial situation, might be amused to know how their arguments strike one of the general public who can not boast of great learning, but one who tries to limp along on a modicum of common sense...
...hours and mid-years. This success immediately went to his head. With delight be silenced the silver voice of song with a grapefruit. Came the Idea of March. 'I have met the enemy and they are Hours,' sobbed our hero as he sank into a Rank of despond. A modicum of hard work enabled him to finish up the year so successfully that he was invited to attend courses in the exclusive Harvard Summer School, Sophomore year our little dusty Trojan transformed himself into a gay butterfly, and floated about to lifting strains of harmony...
Along with the obsolete language requirements and Ph.D. old fogeyism should be classed the University's policy both scholastic and financial, toward the undergraduates concerning the four course per year requirement. At present the minimum tuition fee is $400, based upon the average four course modicum at $100 a course. Ostensibly the system is fair enough, since 16 courses are normally required for the degree, but in reality it is the cause of much injustice and not a little hardship...