Word: orals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Privy Council, five justices in business attire, in a 30-foot London room, decide legal rights affecting one-fourth of the world's population. The procedure is extremely simple and uncomplicated. Unlimited argument is allowed on cases before the court, and oftentimes immediate oral decisions are rendered to the waiting counsel. Mr. Beck said: "Of all courts that I have seen, it is the simplest in form and procedure." There are no formal or lengthy " briefs," although there is a printed summary of the essential facts and the legal points involved, which is called " the case." The arguments...
...when their minds were busy. So they arranged for one of their number to read to them while they worked, making their own cigars and an equal share for the reader. Sam Gompers became a favorite reader. Thereby he acquired a precise enunciation, a mellifluous voice and an effective oral interpretation of words. It also brought him a wide contact with English literature, to which he added a knowledge of the works of English and German economists...
...criticism of existing conditions included in the report of the Scholarship Committee of the Student Council stands out preeminently. Objections as to lack of time for adequate answers, obsolete Honors systems, and inefficient oral examinations may seem very real to Seniors in the Spring but are unlikely to rouse any emotion among undergraduates in the Fall; the failure to extend the tutorial system, on the other hand, is as much of a grievance to the average undergraduate in September as to the rather exceptional Senior writing the report of the Committee...
...these sources is put at $190,400,000, but the present day value" has now fallen to one-quarter on account of the loss of territory and population and reduced consumption. With the recovery of the eco- nomic activity of Germany it will automatically increase." The note urges an oral discussion," but makes no mention of the Ruhr occupation or passive resistance. In the meantime Herr Stresemann, Chief of the People's party, is being kept in reserve. Much anxiety is being evinced in Paris over the trend of British policy in connection with reparations settlement. It is known...
...English Department, however, it is still possible to receive a degree "magna cum" or "summa cum" without this oral examination. That department still distinguishes between a degree "with distinction" and a degree "with Honors". This latter, which requires a severe oral quiz and a long thesis in addition to a high course record and certain specified studies, entitles the successful candidate to "Honors" or "Highest Honors". But the "magna cum" or "summa cum" is awarded without any oral examination, and with more lenient requirements in other respects: Anglo-Saxon, for example, is not necessary; and the thesis represents less exacting...