Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of the student prepared at the public school, the transition to a college life is much easier academically than it is for the man from the boarding school. The former comes from an atmosphere where only a moderate amount of pressure can possibly be brought to bear upon the amount of studying that he undertakes. The school day lasts from 9 to 3 o'clock and the question of whether he shall study or not during the rest of the day lies entirely in his own hands, or in those of his family...
Altho Hagan did not definitely state that this company was actively subsidizing the Harvard Business School, he more than implied as much when he declared, "We have a situation right out here in Harvard College, where the Harvard School of Business Administration, which has enormous influence upon the other educational institutions and upon the press of the country, is absolutely linked up with the power interests. The students in the course on public utilities are being filled with prejudices against public and municipal ownership, and they are being taught a theory of regulation that runs counter to the established system...
While the number of trust funds for charitable enterprise are not so numerous as to make the field closed to any newcomers, many people may feel that Senator Couzens' departure from the beaten path is timely. Much can be said about the advantages of a permanent fund for philanthropic purposes. But it is also possible that the seventeen and a half million dollars which the retired automobile manufacturer proposes to spend in the next quarter century will be more advantageous when used in a concentrated form than if strung out indefinitely and administered by future trustees...
...extension with no very great difficulty. The trouble of answering a question or two and the time taken up by directing less advanced men even with all the members of a course working at once as is now the case is not enough to prevent the instructors from doing much work in their own laboratories. One seems justified in assuming that a sufficient number of graduate students could be found who would be glad to offer this service in the evening in return for the increased opportunity for working in their adjoining private laboratories...
...view of the many advantages of such a scheme it does not seem too much to ask that the hours of the University laboratories approximate those of the library. No increase in facilities, no matter how luxurious, can make up for an inexplicable restriction in their availability, and it is high time that the authorities either meet the needs of their students or show just cause for the impossibility of so doing...