Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some one said that manufacturing chemists of the U. S. had addressed President Coolidge on the subject of altering the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. For reasons other than the reasons of industrial chemists, Labor wants this law changed (TIME, Oct. 24). For yet other reasons, oilmen want this law changed. When interviewed, President Coolidge said he recalled no letters from industrial chemists about the anti-trust law, adding that he thought oilmen had the. most legitimate grounds for seeking a change. Petroleum is limited in the U. S. If U. S. oilmen are not permitted to combine and limit production...
...corona, which is the circle of light observed when the sun is completely obscured by the moon, is a subject of controversy, among astronomers, Professors Stetson explained to a CRIMSON representative. The solution of the problem is important because of its relation to solar eruptions, or sun-spots, which are being made the subject of scientific study in connection with seasonal weather prediction...
November hour exams, which always begin in October and eventually drool on into the month whose name they bear, have been the subject for many a long and vacuous dissertation. As topics for conversation they rival the tyranny of the Yard police and discussion of the current cinematic animadiversions. Extensive vocabularies have ornamented the theme; dire threats have furnished the motif. And consequent results of all this oratory have been, up to this time, entirely lacking...
...elimination of the lecture system, for only in this way can the student be given the detailed information upon which the tutor relies. Professor Eaton believes that a tutor is not intended to impart information, but to aid the student in giving verbal expression to his opinions upon the subject matter covered in courses, by which knowledge becomes an integral part of the student's mind, instead of a carefully catalogued list of facts...
...Under the system in force at the University before the tutorial system began," Professor Eaton said, "the student's final thesis represented a careful written exposition of his subject. Under the tutorial system, the thesis is discussed with the tutor before it is written, so that a verbal expression of ideas, with the consequent rounding of knowledge, precedes and shapes the written expression...