Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Parliament has been virtually promised by Mr. Bonar Law. In essentials, the new constitution follows the British North American Act which gave dominion independence to Canada. If this form of government proves as successful in Ireland as it has worked out in Canada, the out-standing sore spot of the Empire will be healed...
...place the polls at a spot readily convenient for all men has been shown to be impossible in this time when the Sophomore and Junior Classes have so uniformly expressed their lack of interest in the election of class officers. To set a greater number of places for balloting would increase, with other things, the number of men necessary to serve as poll watchers. Such an increase is not only impracticable but with the present attitude of men thus appointed apparently impossible...
...suggestion made by Dean Holmes of the Harvard School of Education seems to meet the facts. He points out that the real need for higher education at the public cost in the need of those who cannot afford to spend their time at an institution situated in any one spot. A State university, therefore, organized to help men study at their homes, would be the best-fitted one to supply the need. The work would be directed by means of correspondence courses, reading lists, and the like. Such a university would guide, test, and reward the student's work...
Plainly there is something wrong; the question is where? Before finding a remedy, it is first necessary to find the sore spot. In this case it may be one or all of three things. The attitude of the class towards German as a language may be hostile,--but that is not likely; or the attitude towards the courses in German may be wrong,--that is possible. The Requirements may be too strict either because the standard is too high, or the field too narrow,--that also is possible. Finally, the courses may be inadequate because of the great difficulty...
...methods of the innkeepers of Oberammergan, shopkeepers of Berlin and Dresden, and restaurant keepers of Paris in the business of quick and complete annexation of American bankrolls which come within their reach. A cablegram tolls of the holdup and robbery of a party of Illinois tourists at a lonely spot in the Balkans...