Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oertel, Birmingham, mining engineering at Columbia; Edward P. Mumford, Christ's College; Cambridge, entomology at California; Keith A. H. Murray, Edinburgh, agriculture at Cornell; George S. Pryde. St. Andrews, history at Yale; Clifford B. Purves, St. Andrews, chemistry at Johns Hopkins; Richard A. Robb, Glasgow, statistics at Chicaco; William Rule, University of Durham, physics at Cornell; Howel Williams, Liverpool University and Imperial College of Science, London, geology at California; Normal C. Wright Christ College, Oxford and Callus, Cambridge, agriculture at Cornell...
...find out whether he has absorbed the bases of a real literary appreciation and taste. This is true to a greater extent even in music, as Dr. Davison shows in this book. It is easier for the teacher, the mediocre, half-educated teacher that is unfortunately the rule in our schools, to give the pupils exercises requiring knowledge of the mathematical side of music, than it is to instill in them a love of the best music. Another great evil to which our attempts at standardization of education has led is that we feel that "to ascend Parnassus one must...
...rarely the good fortune of a reviewer to be able to refer to the artistic standards of an author, and to hold up beside this foot rule the artist's most recent work, in this case a book of short stories, "Here and Beyond." There are five chapter headings in "The Writing of Fiction," and judgment of Mrs. Wharton's short stories may validly proceed on at least two counts of the five, if not more. She treats fiction writing in general, the telling of a short story, the work of constructing a novel, and the character situation...
...switching parties while keeping his seat as Premier. The circumstance illustrates an emergency where French vacillations have provided a continuous administration in a case where the rigid two party system in Britain would have forced a break. But one cannot say that the exception does not prove the rule...
...reasons given, however, are but three all bromides. Several members would seek a meeting of the whole committee before answering categorically. Others point to the traditional value of the rule. One remarks that parliamentary usage often sanctions the two-thirds requirement on motions of importance. It is remarkable that the first objection is equivocal and that the last two depend for their effect on doubtful matters of degree...