Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final analysis, this question resolves down to two comparatively irreconcilable theories of education. The one favors a deep, firmly rooted, but extremely limited knowledge. It leans toward vocationalism. The other favors a broader and more integrated type of learning. It admits less depth in a particular department, but argues that an examination of all the possible approaches within a wide area to a specific problem, and a consequent understanding of the relations between these different approaches, outweighs the loss. If it is admitted that the objects of formal education are to train the intellectual powers and to further the cultural...
...upperclassmen there are who spend only one or two years in the Houses; the harder it is to obtain House spirit. And the presence of associate members will further weaken the bonds uniting regular members. That these protests are to some degree valid is quite true. But the only question here is whether these disadvantages outweigh the advantage of extending the benefits of the system to the Out-of-Housers. Is it fair to make some three hundred men go without the privileges the rest of the college enjoys for the sake of an abstract principle...
...Next question the world wanted answered was: If Neville Chamberlain knew what was going to happen, why did he act as though he didn...
What Next? Where Germany would next plant her military boots was the next question. The Nazi majority in Lithuanian Memel were agitating last week for a "home in the Reich," but that was small change. More significant was the Nazis' tolerance in letting Hungary grab Carpatho-Ukraine. A smart stealing-casino player does not mind an opponent's getting a trick if he has the card that will steal his whole pile...
Strength already flowed back to him as he watched his Martini being mixed. The bartender slid the glass towards him, then drew it back and whistled between his teeth. "Say, you're a student, ain't you?" The question upset the proctor. He thought of the pile of unread books on his desk and nodded. "Too bad, too bad," the bartender commented sadly. "We can't serve drinks to students. Company rules, you know...