Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination period draws to a close, there arises the usual question of the ethics of tutoring. In certain courses students are given to understand that those who obtain such outside assistance, if it comes to the knowledge of the instructor, will be assured of a low grade regardless of the merits of their papers. Yet these courses are usually just the ones in which an accurate correlation of the entire semester's work is essential in order to pass the examination. The department of Philosophy offers an excellent example of this in the case of Philosophy...
Days ahead it was impossible to obtain tickets at the $5 box-office price. Hours ahead a crowd ready, and willing to be come popeyed, collected at the flood lighted theatre entrance. By 9 p. m. those on the curb and those in boxes had seen Marion Davies (white satin and ermine), Lila Lee (green velvet and chin chilla), Billie Dove (satin, orchids, ermines) pass through the entirely fake Chinese portals of the Fox-owned cinepalace. At 10 p. m. the picture began...
...Harvard students who are contemplating candidacy for a Rhodes scholarship may obtain more complete information from Room 5 in University Hall...
...some of the English universities it can be won as easily as the A. B. by merely paying a few pounds more or remaining in residence at the college a few months longer. In America it has become purely a "mechanical" degree, which a college graduate may automatically obtain by passing with credit so many courses. It does not show that the holder is prepared to perform satisfactorily a professional duty, but merely indicates that he is a passably good student in a certain field of study...
...position in a high school shall have a master's degree. This rule is commendable in its aim to raise the standards of secondary school teaching. It would seem more reasonable, however, that a prospective teacher should take advanced work in a graduate school of education. There he could obtain practical experience in classroom work and expert instruction in educational theories and school administration. A graduate school of arts and sciences is, or should be, devoted to pure scholarship...