Word: partialities
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...devote the necessary time to him. This difficulty is gradually being obviated by the introduction of men who teach the Freshman courses, and who are younger and more closely in touch with the undergraduate; the slowness of this change, as well as the fact that it is only a partial cure of the trouble, lessons its value in the near-emergency which exists...
...making a profit on the Houses; this, however, they are not doing. Last year the net deficit to the University on the account of the Houses was something over $53,000; next year, it will be somewhat larger because of the reduction in rents. In view of this, a partial solution to the problem is obvious, if a trifle Utopian: those who can afford more than the maximum set down on their applications should signify that capability. The other side of the question, namely, that presented by the rooms in the upper price brackets, a number of which never have...
...range of the old-time phonograph was neither wide nor even. With in its narrow effective band, it was stridently partial to certain tones, while notes below middle C were inaudible except for their high overtones, the ear being surprisingly obliging in imagining the absent fundamentals. The newer phonographs and present-day talking pictures have a broad and even response spread, yet there are still inaudible bands at the bass and treble extremes. Wide-Range recording has considerably reduced these inaudible bands. Naturally, improvement is noticeable only in the sounds that lie within these newly retrieved areas of the spectrum...
...their college work is as obvious as it is irrelevant. After four years, however, they will leave, socially unfitted, intellectually strained, and quite as far from the good life as they had been before. Possibly the professorial joy at a competent student is in the nature of a partial compensation; possibly the social Benents of a normal college life have been overestimated; but President Scott should be neither surprised nor shocked if his prodigies, a few years hence, are tempted to turn on him with holy anger and sweep his precious incubator to destruction...
...spent two uninterrupted years in steady accumulation and assimilation of the ground-work of the law. That process of laying the foundations is usually felt to be interesting though hard; but it is generally considered exceedingly irksome by the third year. A thesis course would furnish at least a partial vent to this feeling of heavy monotony...