Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been as fine as his contact with his tutors at Baliol. The most justifiable kind of envy is the envy of a man caught in the machinery of one sort of educational mill for the chaps who are in another mill which he is perfectly certain has a better process than his own; better, that is, for him if he could have it, though perhaps it may not be absolutely any better than his own, or half as well suited to the needs of his community. The English tutorial system has been exciting such envy in several American colleges...
...students who are working under the tutorial plan and taking general examinations to assume during the last two years of their stay a minimum of three courses instead of the present four. The first years, it is rightly stated, are spent chiefly in the distribution of studies and the process of settling into the life of the college. The last two are spent in preparation for honors or general examinations. The superimposition without extra credit of much reading under a tutor makes proper attention to regular courses difficult...
...been proposed that this process of elimination begin in those great feeders of the colleges, the public high schools and the private preparatory schools, and for this, too, there is something to be said. -New York Times...
...indifferent success last Saturday against Rochester, has set to work in decided earnest this week. As testimonial to this, Coach Gilmore Dobie has been keeping his Red and White squad scrimmaging until after 6 each afternoon; and the "gloomy Scot" maintains that once the flood lighting system now in process of installation can be put in operation, he will not call it a day until 7 o'clock. Dobie has a very difficult task set for him, but is not in the habit of losing. In his long experience as a coach, notably with North Dakota, Washington, and Navy squads...
...riches an impoverished Europe was going to pour in here for rehabilitation purposes. Now they are finding out not only that Europe cannot pay, but that our own people will not pay the prices they had made. The inevitable consequences of that crazy performance are now in process of being slowly worked out. New York World