Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present purpose is the fact that the Department of Economics had the same need as the Business School of provision for gathering materials for teaching, though this had never been recognized by the University, so that the establishment of the Bureau of Business Research gave a useful object lesson...
...examination. But for those who have regularly followed daily assignments, tutoring offers a perfectly legitimate way of saving time, scarce enough during the examination period, which may be devoted to subjects of greater interest, or of greater importance in a field of concentration. Those professors who most strenuously object to the trespass of strangers on their particular paths of learning, might do well to resort to a method which has been tried successfully in History 1 among other courses, namely giving review lectures of their own before the examination...
Especially important to oilmen seemed object No. 2, for from California's wells have oozed troubles which have spread over the entire industry. In an attempt to eliminate overproduction by forcing independent operators to limit their output, Standard of California began cutting crude oil prices, sent great quantities of gasoline east as cheap as 6 cents a gallon in shipload lots. To meet this new level in the price of petroleum products, Standard of New Jersey through two subsidiaries* cut crude prices from 19? to 41? a barrel...
...hand, as most professors have assistants correct their papers for them, they have often no conception of how well the average student has assimilated the lectures or the reading, or what his especial capabilities or difficulties in the course are. On the other hand, they object to the student correlating his knowledge at a tutoring school and ask questions designed to founder the student who has placed reliance in the Widow, sinking many self-prepared students in the same boat. In doing so, the examiner usually limits himself to esoteric subjects or is compelled to ask tricky questions...
...once a resultant of forces and itself a force. Being a force, it permits no Nirvana-like rest to those who enjoy it or cherish it, or are responsible for it; it must be continuously fed, from time to time stimulated; must at all times be the object or fostering concern. Peace, in short, in Mr. Hoover's conception, must be the beneficiary of an activity and of an expenditure of care and energy which is the equivalent of what we call, in the case of war, preparedness. This conception of peace was more likely to occur...