Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professed 'Administration' ought to be ashamed of themselves! . . . They are not only usurping the powers of government, but are continually trying to 'put things over.' A fact which has been amply demonstrated in the last few minutes. . . . The so-called King Government has violated all precedent in trying to retain office. . . . No Premier has the right to continue in office when he has not even the right to a seat for himself in the Commons or the Senate...
Aggressiveness was displayed by both teams in the closing minutes, the Crimson endeavoring to retain the slight margin which it enjoyed, and M. I. T. struggling vainly to overcome the lead...
...present change has been worded specifically so as to retain for the individual instructor the right to demand attendance and to exclude from his course any student whose failure to appear at regularly scheduled meetings of the class, in any way interferes with the conduct of the work. Exceptionally small classes and experimental courses requiring the cooperation of the personnel of the meetings, are ordinarily the only ones which will fall in this category and again the decision will not rest with the individual instructor or professor...
...ordinary examination glorifies memory, an intellectual quality of secondary rank. In the final examination period the salient fact stands out that a superficial knowledge embracing many facts which one cannot hope to retain is more profitable than a modest and a sounder one. When the examination impends there is no longer time to think, only to memorize. That examinations test memory rather than mental power is the most cogent criticism against them...
None of the others were allowed to retain any chairmanship and they were ousted from such committees as rivers and harbors, agriculture, postoffices...