Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with indignation, on the floor Senators La Follette and Johnson took up cudgels for Mallon. Senator La Follette's chief point was that the Rules Committee should question Senators about infractions of the secrecy rules, not newsmen who have taken no oath to obey those rules...
...photograph was being taken suggested that now at last his countrymen must understand why he, after having been U. S. Ambassador to glamorous Spain, was willing to accept the little Peruvian portfolio. There was work to be done at Lima. He was needed to settle the Tacna-Arica question. Now he had attended to that matter, under President Hoover's guidance, of course. All this his smile seemed to imply -but it really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile, and the twin mining province of Tacna to Peru...
...Council has pointed out, the question of the exact nature of this service must be faced squarely. I believe that vocational information is of much greater value than vocational guidance. As I have tried to suggest in the articles I have written for the CRIMSON during the past months, the Vocational Counsellor should indicate the essential features of various businesses so that the student would be either attracted or repelled by the picture thus presented. If the student is interested, he will probably investigate the matter further; if repelled, he can cross off one branch of business from his list...
This need for leisured intimacy has some bearing. I believe, on the question of the status of the director of vocational guidance. There is much discussion of the official standing of such a man and questions concerning his alliance with the faculty or with the Alumni Association are paramount. I believe that, whatever his standing, whether or not he be a member of the Faculty, he should not be surrounded by such a blaze of glory or honor that the humble fear to approach his throne or open their hearts to him. They must not be frightened by his title...
What is more pertinent, however, in this question of the political allegiance of the director of vocational guidance are his qualifications. I cannot help feeling that, if a faculty member is detailed for this work there will be a great danger; his business experience would be, of necessity limited, because, if he is a good teacher, he cannot have afforded to divide his allegiance between the cloister and the market-place. To discuss vocations intelligently, one must have a detailed knowledge of the subject. The vocational guidance director must be as much an authority on his subject as the professor...