Word: operandi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps it is wrong to wish that Ox-onians should prepare at Eton or Cantabridgians at Harrow and yet the singleness of purpose attained is to be desired. Under the present modus operandi one prepares at Oscaloosa High, aims for Harvard, and goes to Georgia Tech,--a diversion of purpose hardly a credit to a student's ambition. While the interchange of educational parts made possible by College Board Examinations is a happy convenience, it has its cultural limitations. It will be far nobler when the man who prepares at Oscaloosa High either secures a Harvard degree or none...
Under the modus operandi of the privilege any candidate who has dropped a course in the first half year may be required to work at the regular rate in the second half year if his tutor reports that insufficient work has been done outside of class...
...point out "a measure of real advantage to the country which has ever been defeated or even unduly delayed in its enactment through the operation of the rules of the Senate. I am willing to say that within my own close observation of the Senate and its modus operandi I have seen more than one disastrous or costly measure prevented from passage simply because its opponents have known how to use the Senate rules...