Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report showed that Freshmen spend the least and that succeeding classes increase their expenditures. The average freshman cost was estimated at $1,284: sophomore, $1,656: junior, $1,832, and senior...
...time reported as spent by the students in preparing classroom work ranged from two to fifty hours a week, with an average of 20.7 hours. The report gave an unexpected result when it disclosed that the students who spent the least time on their studies attained the highest standing. Figures revealed that the freshmen spend the most time on their lessons and that every succeeding class spends correspondingly less, with the seniors studying the least...
...report sidestepped this dangerous issue quite neatly. It contented itself with rebuking all disputants in general for intolerance, evil-speaking, misjudgments and unwarranted publication of slanders. It transferred the responsibility for unrest in the Presbyterian Church to well-known causes such as the War, modern science, the mechanical age and lack of home training. It reaffirmed belief in the virgin birth of Christ and other Fundamentalist tenets but held "that the Presbyterian system admits of diversity of view when the core of truth is identical." It asked for the commission's continuance for another year to study the constitutional questions...
...reading of this report brought a standing ovation of three minutes' duration in which both bands of extremists joined. But when the time came for debate it was found that the extreme Fundamentalists were by no means pleased with the report's pacific sidestepping...
Chief among the changes in the system of advisors in the Medical School as discussed by Dean Edsall in his recent report to the President is the establishment of a committee of the most skillful of the advisors who will see personally and at length each year, within a few days of the opening of the School, each entering student in order to learn at once as well as possible, his personality, interests, training and capacities, and assign him to an advisor likely to be especially desirable...