Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individual glass blower could use his eyes and judgment regarding the quality of the glass, but a machine requires its material automatically, of proper condition and quantity, otherwise the product will be defective. At that time, glass was more or less an empirical product, evolved from tried formulae, but subject to any number of variations in its physical properties, of which we had but little conception. To produce a glass which in its molten condition would feed a bulb-blowing machine with unfailing speed was a problem in the solution of which the Corning Glass Works have not only...
...that at inaugural President Hoover had recommended the transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work on the same subject, many an observer thought he saw a gradual stifling of Prohibition as an issue for political agitation...
...large proportion of Freshmen in these courses and the wide range of subject matter covered by them make comparatively frequent check-ups in the form of tests advisable. But this fact does not answer the question as to how heavily these periodic tests should count toward the final grade. The arguments in favor of laying great stress on the weekly or monthly marks constitute in reality an indictment of examinations as an accurate test of knowledge. The good student may have an off day mentally or physically or may be so afflicted with examination nervousness as to fall far short...
...what extent this principle can be applied in such courses as Government I must depend largely on the examiners' estimate of the adequacy of the best examination the nature of the subject matter will enable them to draw...
Paul Hyland Harris '28, of Titusville, Pennsylvania, was yesterday announced as the 1929-30 holder of the Rogers Fellowship for travel and research in Europe. Harris' special subject will be "The life and works of Machiavelli, and special topics in the political and social history of Florence during his lifetime." He will make Florence and Rome the headquarters for his research...