Word: render
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American law schools can render a real service, not merely to the profession, but to the economic and business interests of the country, and to every citizen by carrying on the scientific investigation on which the law reforms of the future must go forward...
...standard of entrance examinations. In this way the secondary schools would have to give many of the freshman courses which properly belong to them. But the danger of causing more cramming of formal facts or added emphasis on the mere technique of passing examinations is too great to render this solution entirely satisfactory...
...them together ? swart Walter Hagen and blond Amateur Champion Bobby Jones. No title impended; it was primarily an affair of honor between two of the keenest match-playy golfers that ever cut a divot. It was also a great resort attraction. They had set aside two Sundays to render each other satisfaction. On the first, Hagen came off 8 up after 36 holes played at Sarasota. The second Sunday found them threading the lagoons and jungled ravines of the Pasadena course at St. Petersburg (Hagen's home links this winter). It was on the well-groomed Pasadena greens that...
...power without wholly sustaining the reader's credulity. One cannot help wondering at the sudden transformation of me elf-child Nancy, untaught, uncontrolled, into a strangely self-restrained girl, capable of extraordinary devotion to a uninspiring priest. Why did not her perception of and longing for the nobler love render the beautiful and gifted Carlota, so comprehending of herself and others, impervious to a love far from satisfying? And how could Philip, the object of the love, once awake to human passion, return so inexorably to a calm monastic prison? Ever conscious of "The Cloister and the Hearth" with...
...play an active part in the evolution of society, any step toward the cloistering of knowledge or toward its segregation from what is practical, should be discouraged. The Law School investigation, on the other hand, becomes an example of the highest service which a university can hope to render. It bears a close kinship to the spirit which has imbued the American graduate school in its recent development. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of this application by a university of its expert minds to the solution of problems which affect equally each unit of the society...