Word: seem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ideal system, my inquiries seem to indicate is one of complete editorial control by students, with strict accountability for the exercise of that control both as members of the college community and as citizens. Only in this way in my opinion, will student editors be enabled to develop genuine standards of editorial judgement, discrimination and taste. As long as standards are imposed by faculty or adminis- trative flat they are bound to be educationally and psychologically unsound and to be accepted by students grudgingly...
...unusual enough to arouse public interest. Women have been singularly unfortunate in their political adventures of late years, and no one forgets the debacle of "Ma" Ferguson in Tex, but when prominent Republican leaders admitted that her only fault was in not covering her tracks well enough there would seem to be ample reason for sympathy...
...interstate public utility companies, ordered by the Senate last winter. President Coolidge, whose appointees the trade commissioners are, said last week that in his opinion the ton and the ten volumes contained nothing requiring federal action, that state regulators had power to deal with such utility practices as might seem suspicious in the evidence. Chief among the trade commission's discoveries which have excited vigilant patriots is the distribution of text books and public utility "catechisms" circulated by thousands in the public schools of several states to foster the idea that government-operation of light, gas and power companies...
...France, where the Kellogg Pact is cordially mistrusted, scathing U. S. Journalist William Morton Fullerton observed, last week, in the Paris Figaro, that the Powers seem to have infected each other with "contagious Pactomania...
...interested in directly stimulating attention to studies. But she has done better than she know. She has strengthened a professional bugabear until it is threatening to bite the professors. Come to think of it, a public review of what is being taught in the classrooms seem an eminently healthful development...