Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oversight of concentration, distribution, and the choice of courses, will he committed as far as is practicable to the tutors. This will give the tutor a general jurisdiction over work related to his subject, and enable him to advise with the idea of meeting the individual needs...
...railroad tracks--where sleep is an infrequent luxury. Departure from the usual routine of entertainment, however, is usually forgiven in a busy land where the overworked candidates find it difficult to keep abreast of the current literature on "men and manners". In the South Pacific it is different. Oversight on the part of the South Australian Cricket Club in falling to provide afternoon tea for the visiting New South Wales players led to threats of withdrawal from the scheduled match...
...council will be made up of members of the faculty, the corporation, and the undergraduate body. It will decide upon such questions as abolishing daily chapel and allowing undergraduates to attend church outside of the Yale campus. It will have general oversight of religious and moral life...
Mental Deficiency. Conditions of mental retardation, delinquency, dwarfism, gigantism and other defects, were definitely improved by glandular therapy under the oversight of Dr. Burtis B. Breese, Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati, and Dr. Louis Lurie, Director of the Psychopathic Institute of the Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati. Eight children were shown as exhibits. They suffered from deficiency in the pituitary glands, were treated by pituitary extracts. One lad of seven, apparently hopelessly feebleminded, had advanced four school grades in three years. Others, dwarfs and giants, were made to develop properly...
...really been a unit. Formerly, when any important step was contemplated, there were at least three authorities who had something to say in the matter. This fall the crew management has announced that Coach Stevens will be the final authority on all matters concerning the University crews, with general oversight over the whole rowing system. He along will make all the cuts and be responsible to no one in his choice of candidates and application of coaching methods. This centering of authority on one man was adopted by all the leading colleges in the East last season. The turning over...