Word: non
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jury in the Determination of Preliminary Questions of Fact." The ordinary idea with regard to law is that juries decide questions of law. It often happens, however, that, under exclusionary rules of evidence, whether certain evidence be given to the jury at all depends on the existence or non-existence of some preliminary fact. It is generally said that this preliminary fact must be determined by a judge. This article shows when this last statement is true...
...last year, the debaters will make every effort to present the cases in non-technical language as far as possible, so that the arguments will be readily intelligible to the outsider...
Sued for Divorce. John Henry Mears, globe-circler whose record (23 days, 15 hr., 21 min., established in 1928) was only surpassed by the Graf Zeppelin's flight; by Mrs. Marian Mears at Oakland, Calif. Grounds: non-support...
...midst of the present deluge of collegiate criticism, Professor David Snedder of Teachers College, Columbia University, has presented the theory that the standardized education of today is completely inadequate for the diversified group of men presenting themselves for non-professional degrees. The proposal of Mr. Snedder provides for a college with no degrees and no entrance examinations, an institution with emphasis on preparation for a vocation. The substance of his objection is that the present educational system affords no place for the purely academic mind and advances the student no farther along the road to the attainment of his vocation...
...your editorial of Wednesday, November sixth, entitled the "Grain and the Chaff", commenting on the recommendation of books by a committee acting for the Cooperative Society, you lament that the committee deals only with non-fiction and you suggest that other forms of literature might very profitably be included in their survey...