Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waste comes through the lack of guidance to the brighter men in the use of their surplus time. A good many spend it in college activities. A few educate themselves in spite of the system...
Judge Stone emphasized the fact that far too little attention, was paid to the study of the question from all angles, and he believed that the only way to remedy this defect was to have but one or two debates a season and to spend all the intervening time in preparation...
...station, which has been somewhat reduced in scope in recent years, is expected to take on a new importance with the return of Professor Bailey, who played an important part in its establishment over thirty years ago and served for a long time as its director. He plans to spend the next two years in Peru. In addition to supervising the routine affairs of the station he will continue his studies of the globular star-clusters...
...conceivable that funds may be found, and also that many professors now tied up with several courses may be relieved of some of them where these courses could be adequately covered by reading and conference with a tutor, and so present faculty member would be able to spend some time on tutorial work. The question of the attitude can be taken care of; if it were possible for a tutor to reach a full professorship by that work alone, the interest of these men in tutorial work would be permanent. As for the undergraduate, if be found that he could...
...would also be possible to eliminate some courses that exist purely for the purpose of disseminating information and nothing else, and a great many lectures whose purpose is avowedly that. Students would profit if they would devote the time to reading, that they they would otherwise spend in lectures. Professors and all instructors would benefit greatly, for under the present situation members of the faculty have to cut their own work down to an absolute minimum. How many professors except when on Sabbatical leave, find time to prepare a book for publication...