Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resentment of unfavorable comment on the part of the Oregon undergraduate body has led to a parallel situation, Irritated by the hostile criticism it attempts to justify its suppressive tendencies with the phrase "to prevent disagreement". It would deny to the Emerald the opportunity to exercise one of the prime functions of an undergraduate publication that of moulding opinion, granting it only the right of reflecting the popular sentiment of the "student leaders...
...leagues top the elaborate structure of organized" professional baseball, uniquely monopolistic. These are parallel associations, each composed of eight teams or clubs, each team or club representing a city in which half of its games are played...
...Mexican situation has temporarily retired from the front page headlines but the operations of the State Department continue to bear close watching. One more step like yesterday's and the people of this country will find themselves committed to a policy of unwarranted aggression whose closest parallel is the Mexican...
...fiction- which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from up-creek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross. But the Arrowsmith plot is altered. This time the Castigator, instead of exerting his greatest efforts in harrying a fine-mettled creature to refuge in the wilderness, singles...
...same privilege to the Faculty. It could be made to operate in such a manner that many professors, now giving half their minds to lecturing, half to research, and so injuring the values of both, might remain students all their lives. Such men should be paid on a scale parallel with that of the true teacher, depending on achievement and years of service, in addition to all expenses in the beginning of their weeks. The value of the tutorial system in its full development to the undergraduate of the future will be no greater than its value to the Faculty...