Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system. On the basis of this report one would certainly advocate its adoption at Yale. The emphasis on marks and its attendant evils has long been deplored here by student and faculty alike, but few definite and progressive steps have been taken to abolish them. Here we have concrete proof of the success of a more liberal system which should influence the authorities toward some definite action...
Again we urge the college authorities to use this proof of success in casting aside the out-worn, out-moded, and detrimental mark system and compulsory attendance as we know it today. --The Yale News...
...have decided, as modest proof of my loyalty, to double the sum of my class subscription. I should like this donation of $1,000 to be known as the Dr. Hanfstaengl Scholarship...
...When proof of his new pictures' authenticity did not arrive, Mr. Joseloff consulted art experts, confirmed his worst suspicions. Last week, after experts testified that Mr. Joseloff's pictures were fake, a Manhattan Supreme Court handed down a judgment of $26,625 against the International Art Galleries. Mr. Joseloff kept his pictures, which one testifying expert thought were worth as much...
When the South finally put secession to the proof, it found there was no stopping the dangerous principle; sectionalism was one of the causes of the South's defeat. Says Author Adams: "The united Confederacy was built upon the quicksand of shifting local loyalties." In 180 pages Adams retells, with balanced impartiality, the story of the Civil War, concludes: "The essence of our national tragedy has been that the section of our new country in which the humane view and way of life developed first should . . . have been forced ... to expend its intellectual energies against the trend...