Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other reason why few men from liberal arts colleges go into the production field is contained in a letter received from one of the large steel companies: "We have no objection to the liberal arts college man. He has an education and training that will make him valuable to our business. We find, however, that very frequently men from the liberal arts colleges are unwilling to put on overalls and go into the mill, that they dislike the dirty and laborious work that is required; and it is our experience that many men will not stick. We are, however, perfectly...
...Note,--Dean Gauss, laus Deo, is right. The raccoon coat is very nearly extinct. But is he not mistaken as to the cause of its disappearance? Perhaps a more effective reason for its demise was its adoption by the drugstore cowboy and the "Harvard Square student" and a consequent bringing of the college man to a realization of his grotesqueness. --Dean Gauss of Princeton, in the Saturday Evening Post...
...reason for any conflict between the Fundamentalist and the Modernist or scientific point of view, nor should belief in one theory necessarily force us to reject the other. Belief is a matter of faith, and I believe If you will pardon me for saying it, my belief is not a theory. It is a living truth. I would as soon think of denying the reality of the sunlight Why argue with darkness...
...Perhaps the chief reason for the fluctuating conditions in the industry today is the fact that so many of the men who still dominate it, were with it in its promotional stages and do not adapt themselves or their productions to settled conditions. In time, however the motion picture business is sure to arrive at the stabilization already enjoyed by the radio...
With the proper understanding of the inherently smoke-screen quality of the first named reason for the steady growth of "unsatisfactories" in Dean Hanford's report, the necessity for close attention to the second and third reasons comes squarely into its own. No doubt more stringency in the treatment of men who have once failed of promotion would result in an immediate improvement in the appearance of Freshman standing, but by so doing the symptoms of disease are removed. It is the cause of the symptoms that requires earnest searching and thoughtful treatment...