Word: retain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important (such as "police") to Britons. Through fistfuls of pages the Report and the Plan weave back and forth among the intricacies of modifying "Dyarchy," but both emerge with the recommendation that final decision in every case must be reserved to the Viceregal Government which, it is recommended, shall retain supreme power to override the acts of Indian provincial legislatures and the Assembly at Delhi...
...much time on them might not fail to get sufficient credit. When the Naval Science Department was established after the war was over it was found necessary to continue the practice, not in order to put Military and Naval Science on the same basis, but in order to retain the enrollment, so seriously did the numbers decline. At the present time the student receives one credit per year for each course in Military or Naval Science, or a possible four credits from courses of the seventeen required for graduation...
Last week plans were announced for a holding company to be known as Carrier Corp. It will take over Carrier Engineering, Brunswick-Kroeschell Co. (specialists in marine refrigeration), and York Heating & Ventilating Corp., Philadelphia. Each company will retain its identity, but Carrier Corp. will conduct all research, direct sales and engineering activities...
Professors in large lecture courses are opposed to the hours, if only because of the complicated machinery involved; section men, if they insist, are easily able to test ability by one or a series of informal tests. The only excuse ever offered to conscientious objectors is the necessity to retain some disciplinary check on the student. In a university where even the faculty upholds liberalism to a point amounting almost to a fetish, where paternalism never rears its ugly head, and where a premium is placed on individual responsibility, the system of hour examinations is a paradox; a conflict between...
...attempt to incorporate in Harvard the advantages of the English tutorial system and at the same time retain the distinguishing characteristics of American education has become a problem which domands a clear definition of aims on the part of the Harvard faculty. As Mr. Perkins indicates in his article in today's CRIMSON, the process of self development and gradual growth here has led to an impass. If the tutorial system is to continue it must cease to be a nebulous liason between the student and teacher and adopt the definite form of actual intellectual development...