Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...elasticity sought in the new Yale plan is to be secured by three innovations. First, examinations are to be fewer in number and more general, while strength in one subject will offset weakness in another; second, the school record of a candidate will be received and allowed a certain amount of consideration; and thirdly, in cases of unusual ability, the recommendation of a school principal will count for those candidates whose subjects of study may have differed from those prescribed for admission. It is to be noted that those changes secure essentially the same advantages as have been introduced under...
...experiment this year would start work about the first of July and finish some time in September. Slight expenses would be involved including 40 cents a day for rations, and six dollars for uniforms: in all, about thirty dollars. A naval reserve bill providing for Government offset of such expenses has been lately introduced in Congress and if this summer's experiment proves successful, will doubtless be passed at the next session...
...urged that a considerable proportion of college men come from well-to-do families and are provided with good jobs at once; but that fact is offset by the other fact that the first three years out of college are for many men years of study in a professional school in which they earn no income. The two facts may fairly be considered as balancing each other. With the figures from so many men taking part in the result, drawn from two universities, and from two departments in one of them, the average may be thought of as fairly representative...
...University soccer team defeated the Newton Centre team on Saturday in a one-sided contest by the score of 8 to 0. While the visiting team had one or two individual stars, their work was offset by the smooth work of the University team...
...been done, for marks would be based upon work done throughout a course. Under such a system there would be an increase of work for those who prepare examinations and correct blue-books, but this and other objections raised against the proposed plan seem to be more than offset by the many advantages that would result...