Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beyond all doubt our great universities have, by their very size, to a great extent lost their grip on their students. Whether or not this plan of subdivision would enable them to regain that hold on the individual student is a question for our great educators to determine. Already there are signs of a drift toward English methods in dealing with the question. The two great English Universities represent more centuries of educational evolution than most of our own have dared to contemplate. Even a generation ago, Harvard University was a compact and easily handled college, a veritable cultural unit...
...question naturally comes up: Who shall be excluded" The committee believes that the majority of Harvard students would heartily oppose the exclusion of any class, or race, or sect." The report points out that each case must be thought of as an individual case to be judged entirely upon it: own merits, and that where evidence is insufficient to test character and personality, the Committee on Admission plans to request a personal interview with the candidate...
Ramsay Rampant. As Sir Austen resumed his seat, famed Laborite Leader Ramsay Macdonald pounced venomously upon his last words: "I am very much inclined to allow the laurels which the right honorable gentleman has just placed upon his own head to remain there without question...
...France has never faced the question of taxing her people to meet her national requirements. By permitting France and Italy not to pay their debts while imposing on the British taxpayer the annual sums which those countries ought to pay, we are in fact subsidizing out of the pockets of the British the severe competition of France and Italy against British goods. We are paying America ?34,000,000 a year and this will rise to ?38,000,000 a year. The amount the Chancellor of the Exchequer has to find for payment of the American debt represents ninepence...
...indeed should not Carol pilot a supercharged space-ripper at Atlantic City? For some hours there seemed to be no answer to this question. Then Carol's secretary regretfully announced that "for unknown reasons" the American Automobile Association would not grant a racing driver's license to "M. Scarlat Mondstireanu" (Carol's incognito...