Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open-minded liberal, President Little took an active part in the question of racial exclusion at Harvard three years ago. In a ringing speech to the alumni he denounced the exclusion policy. Since taking charge at Maine he has been a severe critic of educational methods; recently he was quoted as saying that the American colleges were best fitted for turning out "machine-made aristocrats." He is a strong believer in the personal value of education, and has said that he hopes to see the day when the personal interview will succeed the written examination...
...course is too technical and not broad enough for those undergraduates of the second mentioned type. The hysteresis curve of the generator is taught, while personal experience brings to light the fact that from the professor down to the instructor there was no one who could answer the simple question as to how many volts are used in the operation of an apartment elevator motor...
...scale stands the grind, at the other the tramp athlete, and in between should be found the perfect student who seeks the Greek ideal of a vigorous mind in a beautiful body. The question that really deserves serious consideration is that of warped ideals, and not the minor influences of a manner of life which happens to include greater material comforts...
...Geneva and at Paris diplomats dropped a pregnant word or two anent M. Caillaux's mission. "Set all question of figures and barter aside," said they. "If America expects any sum to be repaid by France over a period of 60 or 70 years, she is deluded. Grey-bearded men, yet unborn will not pay taxes to America in 1980. There was no Italy 60 years ago; will there be a France in 60 more? Sixty-two years ago the dollar was worth only a franc; it may be worth less than that in another...
Died. Sir Francis Darwin, 77, distinguished botanist, originator of the theory that plants have an "unconscious memory," asker of the question "Do plants think?" thrice a widower, son of the famed Charles Darwin; at Cambridge, England...