Word: strata
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hate this bumpy strata of air I'm in now. Smooth again. I'm now at 6000 feet, still climbing. Tom is about 5000 feet, but passing directly under me. It's colder than all get-out up here now. So I'll have to put on my glove again and write with my left hand and drive with my right. This can't be done, so I'll stop writing for a minute...
...consented to give two talks on the value of weather-knowledge a matter which has affected several important battles during the last two years. Professor Atwood will deal with the question of reading maps in such a way that the military importance of the terrain and its sub-strata can be recognized. In all the work, the metric system will be used...
...from trying to prevent the education of men without means, the University, with its host of stipend-bearing scholarships, makes the problem easier than anywhere else in America. Harvard, realizing that maximum influence and virility require universality, wishes to represent all strata and all sections. By no means is it the stronghold of a class. Unfortunately education presupposes standards, and these unpleasantly exclude many; there is the further need of charging tuition to defray about a fourth of a student's academic expenses. Some minds evidently are still so limited as to see class exclusion in these ineradicable necessities...
...stories are neither very interesting nor very well very written. The editors as well as the authors are to blame for such mistakes as "Charles Dicken's reputation," "a vastly higher strata," the wrong use of "formula" on page 26, and the sudden change of a character's name from Josh to Amos on page 29. Even if the material handed in afforded no fiction with the snap we are accustomed to expect in Advocate stories, care should be taken to avoid such examples of slovenliness...
This inefficiency was recently brought out strikingly in a test applied in the Graduate School of Business Administration. That this incapacity for clear expression should appear so markedly in the Business School, is even more surprising, for only graduates of approved colleges,--men representing the upper strata of mental ability--are accepted. The tests were not difficult. A series of reports was assigned the first-year class in marketing, and each report was turned over to the English department for criticism and correction. The results were astonishing. On the first assignment seventy-nine per cent. failed to write even fair...