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...stay (43). their ten causes, from insults to insanity. In "the 1,477 minutes spent on matters not directly connected with the life and experience of the talkers." he found the most popular topics were "abstract scientific discussions, economics and government, religion and philosophy, sex from a factual standpoint"; least popular topics were exploration and sporting events. His conclusion: "When I picture the life in the North and here, I say-my stomach is better off here but my mentality lives its best up there. . . . The inhabitants of the Koyukuk would rather eat beans with liberty, burn candles with independence...
...universities, has been to allow the undergraduate to decide for himself just how much he will put into his work, so long as his grades are reasonably good. Dean Hanford's argument against the methods of the Bureau is, in this case, a well-founded one, from a theoretical standpoint; from the point of view of practice, it is useless, for even if the court in this particular instance should be swayed by it, the tutoring establishments will continue their ways along other lines...
Announced last week-by the American Public Health Association and the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.-as the most enviable U. S. communities from the standpoint of health, were...
...worth of the existing social structure. The biggest stumbling block to the spread of Communism in the United States is the control of the schools by those of capitalist persuasion. Any situation which tends to weaken the education system and to expose it to revolutionary ideas should, from the standpoint of the capitalist, be immediately remedied. Chicago may choose between loss of propagandist power and paying its teachers...
From an ideal standpoint it is clearly desirable that greater weight be given to tutorial work. The difficulty is the practical one of how to accomplish this. Each tutor, it is argued, is so prejudiced in favor of his own tutees that in many cases his remarks are about as reliable as the eyewash found in the ordinary business letter of recommendation. That this should be true is not surprising in view of the fact that at present all the tutor is asked for is in effect a letter of recommendation. The CRIMSON has suggested before in this and other...