Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current "Time" bears news of the interesting attempt of Pomona College, Claremont, California, to emulate, in its expansion, the Oxford organization. Since its founding in 1888, Pomona has restricted its enrollment to 700, believing the maintenance of its small college character essential to proper touch between instructor and student. However, when there came that urge to expand which is now a burden on every American college, the authorities laid plans to expand, by units, that is, to add to Pomona, as funds should become available, independent undergraduate schools, connected with the original college only through the corporation and reign...
...business and in other affairs of life. It is a great service and one for which business, in particular, has shown gratitude." The "Post" develops this, showing the extreme beneficence of business. And then it moves to the evident raison d'etre of the editorial--the proper appreciation of pure science...
This shift of weight from chiefly rhetorical training to an introduction to literature is significant in its substitution of college education proper for preparatory school features. It presupposes more scholastic training in composition and prepares to make its further training in composition more a reflection of literary appreciation than the product of rules well-learned...
...They are not allowed the entire half hour for eating their own meals as was agreed upon originally, for they are required to give half of this period to setting up the tables. This setting up of tables could be done in five minutes if there were a proper system...
...student head-waiter should be appointed, preferably an upperclassman of some standing and experience, who will be able to understand and to handle properly the men under him, and who will be able to voice the complaints of the waiters to the proper authorities...