Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...management of an English college seems, to an American, characterized by absence of system, of hard and fast rule. Discipline, where required, is administered by admonition, by persuasion or pressure, to suit the individual case. And with respect to instruction and education, the personal element predominates, especially in the training of undergraduates who are reading for honors. In most English university colleges there are two classes of students, the "honors" men and "pass" men. Here again, a reasonable elasticity, a recognition of the personal inclinations, needs, and capacities of the undergraduate, is the governing principle...
Senator Metcalf, a newcomer to the Senate, replied, abashed, nervous: "I did not understand I was violating any rule...
...widened the liberties enjoyed by Indians in numerous fields, while at the same time winning them over in some measure to an enlightened endurance of British rule...
Questionnaires were sent to 300 colleges and only 148 replied. The rule among the 148 is a single, comprehensive, upperclass course covering the whole field from the Mathers to Mencken, for which six hours of study-credit are given for the year. This type of course is boiled down in 25 institutions? including Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Colorado, Occidental and Yale?to two hours a week and then usually amplified by offering advanced courses. Ohio, Grinnell, Hamilton, Amherst, Florida, Kalamazoo, Mount Holyoke, Carleton and 16 others content themselves with semester or quarter-year outline courses...
Interest, it is a platitude to remark, is to life what salt is to eggs. So, although I do not as a rule attend afternoon lectures, particularly in the spring, I intend today to hear Professor McDougal at Emerson D lecture on that interesting subject in Psychology...