Word: normale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expenditures- "The normal growth of the country naturally reflects itself in increased costs of government. . . . The cost of new functions and duties can be substantially reduced only by curtailing the function or the duty." So wrote the President last week. Before Depression the War and Navy Departments together spent in a typical year about $700,000,000. The 1938 budget provided $981,000,000 for national defense...
...budget to $860,000,000, an increase of 23%. Now, however, interest rates are abnormally low. Since by 1938 the public debt will have increased over 100%, the interest on the debt can be expected gradually to mount in the post-Recovery era as interest rates return to normal, adding perhaps another $500,000,000 to annual interest charges...
...crux of the matter is that the normal undergraduate is lazy and if, for one reason or another, he can afford to let the tutoring school do his work for him, he probably will. As long as the net educational result is the same in either case, he should by all means be allowed this opportunity. Most of those utilizing the schools are probably not affected one way or the other, but a certain percentage of the college is entirely dependent on them. These men fail to take advantage of the opportunities offered them and abuse the freedom which should...
...some work or leave. For the great majority of undergraduates who do not fall into this extreme category, the measures suggested by the Council,--such as a better adviser system. reorganized courses, closer contact in big courses between instructor and student--would probably return the "pressing problem" to its normal proportions...
...system of admissions results in wholesale slashing of the enrollment after the first year. At present many men drift into law-school upon graduation without definite purpose. They continue to drift through the first year and are dropped immediately following their final examinations. Such a system clogs the normal functions of a post-graduate academy and is obviously wrong. Stiffer entrance requirements, such as are in force at Yale, would eliminate the idle and the unfit, and would increase the effectiveness of both faculty and student body...