Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Refuting the assumption that the Harvard tutorial system is eventually to approximate the Oxford and Cambridge systems, Assistant Professor R. M. Eaton, chairman of the Board of Tutors in Philosophy, in a statement to a CRIMSON representative declared yesterday that the lecture system must continue to bear the load of imparting information, while the tutor integrates this diverse material and aids the student in gaining an intelligent grasp of the whole field...
Shovels Sirs: May I ask that your editorial department take the same care in checking the following statements that they might well have taken in checking the statement in your first footnote, third column, page 14, TIME, Sept...
...candidate in nineteen twenty-eight' is a sentence of good English. But it would not have a leg for the debate to run on; and this might diminish, if not eclipse, the gayety of the nation." If Senator Fess quoted President Coolidge exactly in the statement, "I will not be nominated," Dr. Van Dyke or his peer at grammar could write the New York Times another letter pointing out that the Coolidge renomination question is now definitely settled in the negative, since "I will not" expresses determination whereas "I shall not" would have been simple prediction...
Coolidge. President Coolidge last week announced after an analysis of country-wide scope that business and trade conditions of the U. S. were healthy. In the opinion of the President trade trends showed a continued advance. His statement caused a slight increase in prices on the stock market but for just one day. Wall Street, reasoning that the Chief Executive is usually optimistic, scrutinized his remarks with care. Some brokers questioned them. The loss in railway net receipt "is not great" was a contention of the President. The last available figures registered a decline of 11% which Wall Street considered...
Professor Clark's statement of the general educational ideas of President Mason of Chicago, and his comment upon the recent and more established innovations at Harvard only confirm the general belief that there is a tendency in American education which is rapidly changing into a purpose. Modelled after the German universities, American colleges are breaking from the mould--tending not to an imitation of the English or any other type, but borrowing what seems good and inventing what seems better. The present generation of undergraduates is, so to speak serving as a test case in many laboratories; that the experimenters...