Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magnificent, such scornful treatment of a tradition unique among women's college papers. But perhaps the most significant angle to the whole affair is the weight which it lends to the rumour that the scholastic standard of Radcliffe College is being gradually raised to that of her older brother...
...student. But other use of the "high tables" could be made besides one that follows the Oxford-Cambridge idea of segregation of tutors and students. Occasional use of the "high table" as a gathering place of the House resident and non-resident tutors would serve to coordinate the older members of the unit. To consider these tables as the means to a weekly or Di-weekly meeting of the preceptors and not as a substitute for a common tutor and student table, puts a more pleasant light on an important side of life within the new halls...
Standard argument of the investment trust is the alleged inability of the individual to choose stocks wisely. Let older and wiser heads, operating with large amounts of capital (runs the argument) do your investing for you. Then to you the poorhouse will never beckon, and at your door no wolf will ever howl. Logical, in many ways, is this theory (though it involves faith, hope and occasionally some charity regarding investment trusts and their management) but many a U. S. investor, doggedly individualistic, will doubtless continue to pick his own issues, watch his own ticker and, if necessary, lose...
Harvard neither desires nor is fitted for a wholesale adoption of the English tutorial structure. But in restricting the students' opportunity for a tutorial contact to the guidance of a single preceptor it seems more than likely that she has rejected one of the chief advantages of the older system...
...Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Des Moines University, who has fired his entire faculty for modernistic views. This is the second purging of sin from the Baptist institution, from which all evolutionists and geologists were expelled two years ago. The students have responded with eggs, a protest older than Genesis...