Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annoying." ¶Dover (N. J.) Lodge No. 541 of the Loyal Order of Moose invited President Coolidge to become a member. His secretary despatched the following polite refusal: ". . . He [the President] is not, however, a member of any fraternal organization,* and it is felt that while there is no question of the excellence of such an organization that is headed by Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, the appearance of discrimination, as the cause or much embarrassment, must be avoided, to maintain his present position." ¶Chief Look Out and 20 lusty redskins of the Osage tribe came...
...Secretary of State Was informed by the Peruvian Government last week that its answer was in the negative, to his proposal that the Tacna-Arica question be solved by ceding to Bolivia this territory, so long claimed by both Peru and Chile (TIME, Dec. 13 et ante...
...work, we shall find but few who do not profit in some way by the giving or accepting its service. Much of its work is of the sort that cannot be cried from the house tops, and so it is that in this age of advertisement the question may some times be asked "What does the Phillips Brooks House Association do?" The answer is, "It is quietly and deliberately carrying out the policy of its founders in promoting Plety, Charity, and Hospitality...
...plan of honors in English recently approved by the Faculty," writes Mr. Peterkin, discussing this question in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin seems likely to have interesting developments. Not only will it vitally affect the subjects of undergaduate and graduate study within Harvard itself, but owning to the position which Havard occupies in the scholastic world, it is more than probable that ultimately it will have a profound and far-reaching influence on the whole attitude of American education. It is not the purpose of this article to discuss the plan in detail, but simply the general principle...
...with the practice, which is gradually being introduced, of allowing a student to substitute work with his tutor for course requirements, inevitably increases the responsibility and the influence of the tutor, since the importance of the tutorial work will increase in inverse ratio to that of the course. The question then arises whether the tutorial system in its present form is capable of meeting this added responsibility...