Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thanking you for this opportunity to correct wide-spread, false impression concerning the Canadian Government's relations with the C. N. R. V. O. WATTS...
...waking up and finding it all a dream. Preparation to meet the Divisionals is as hopelessly futile for the average Senior as attempts to get away from the engine in the nightmare. For all that can be said against cramming in the last few weeks, it is impossible to spread over a long time the final review necessary for the fingertip knowledge required in the Divisional Examinations. In the meantime, all other work, tests, reports, weekly quizzes, naturally suffers. The additional burden of daily work under such circumstances tends to spill the whole load...
...decline in prices that began early in 1920 reduced the price of agricultural products below the cost of production and widened the spread between the cost of those things which the farmer had to pay for and the income from what he had to sell. As a result the farmer was unable to pay his debts and was forced to go into liquidation at greatly reduced purchasing power in order to deal with this situation. And so the Farm Bloc arose as the creature of an emergency. It never had any formal organization, never compiled a list of members...
...established, and any man who would obtain a desirable teaching berth must first obtain by hook or crook some sort of fancy degree. This would not be serious if such degrees were always sure hall-marks of a man's scholastic training and ability; but the more wide-spread the idea becomes that no man of science or letters is intellectually respectable unless stamped with some kind of badge or diploma, the more widespread will be the attendant corruption...
...principle which justifies such changes, is that there is now spread, at Harvard a table of intellectual food of which all may partake. But this is not enough; the student must be shown the value of the subjects, and their interest. The tutor's work is here. And the success with which a subject is absorbed should certainly be the measure of an undergraduate's achievement, on the degree of his intelligent command of his field should honors or distinction be awarded or withheld...