Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though it is. Sir Austen Chamberlain, he of the affrighting icy monocle, grows dim; but even without a monocle his brother Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, remains perhaps the world's most formidable Tory. Last week Mr. Chamberlain addressed the House of Commons, and Labor in particular, with such withering conservative rebuke that even when he referred to Britain's 2,000,000 unemployed," no M. P. ventured the impertinence of interrupting to observe that Government's own official figure last week...
...been convincingly proved by the first replies to the Student Council's Language Questionnaire. Two hundred questionnaires have been returned to the Council's special committee, of which Arthur S. Pier, Jr. '35 is chairman, and of these a great majority express dissatisfaction with the prevailing system and in particular urge entire abolition of the elementary requirement...
...trial last week, the pair again admitted their guilt, but insisted that they had bilked only citizens of Britain and the U. S., fair game to any Frenchman. Furthermore, they claimed that the particular picture for which they were being tried was a genuine Millet...
...exact proportion of the more and the less desirable men. Merely to describe such a scheme is to demonstrate its infeasibility. Not only would an adequate consideration of these three criteria drive the distribution committee to insanity in a week, but there would be innumerable other factors entering in--particular scholastic interests or fraternities, for example--that would throw the most meticulous calculations out of balance...
Obviously, then, any attempt to preserve an exact average in a particular year must be abandoned; the other method must be employed; the colleges to be made as equally desirable as possible. To a certain extent this has already been done, in that the masters and fellows are on an equally high plane in each unit. Where there are applications based on the hope of individual work with a particular fellow, they will probably even off and should be granted by the committee. But for the other criteria in the students' minds which are not and can not be equalized...