Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the President's speech, newspapers published a deluge of reports about its political reaction. Partisan papers flew into headlines. One side published " Harding's Speech Splits Party." The other side (notably The Christian Science Monitor] ran " President Finds His Court Policy Backed by Public...
...British ports with large liquor cargoes. The suggestion that the Bahamas be placed on a liquor ration, however, is apparently not favored in the British Colonial office, as appears from statements in the House of Commons by Undersecretary W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore. A representative of the Christian Science Monitor, however, was " informed in well-informed circles" that Mr. Ormsby-Gore's statement was "given on the spur of the moment...
...morning of a Yale football game one professor, who conducted a large course and unfortunately felt it necessary to hold a meeting as usual, counted the number of men actually in attendance and later compared his figure with the monitor's report. Theoretically, that is monetarily, the graph curve rose to twice the height of the curve of actual count...
...present, it is evident that monitorial ideas of honor are dubious. Justice, apparently, doesn't hold between friends. The monitor has no supervisor but his conscience; and even a New England conscience can be pacified by a few arguments of "What difference does it make?" Perhaps the answer, in individual cases, is "little"; but the net result is to throw the whole system into disrepute, and make respect for the rule unknown...
...machinery for taking attendance is not at fault. The easy-going monitor and the student who takes advantage of his friendship are simply an unavoidable outgrowth of the whole system. Their attitude cannot be changed by any external means. But when the question of voluntary attendance comes up for consideration, the shortcomings of the monitorial system are likely to be an argument in its favor...