Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly half of the Freshmen in Group III originated from private schools, which are usually regarded as superior. One semester of average Freshman courses is enough to make these realize that they are merely studying under a new system the same subject matter learned in school, to burst their bubbles of academic enthusiasm, and to make them restless and wayward. Thus, bored prep school men are ready and no doubt willing to do this advanced work. Proof of this is the fact that when, some years ago, freedom in selection of courses was granted, more than 300 Freshmen turned...
They will take the negative of the subject: "Resolved, That Congress should empower an administrative agency to enforce compulsory arbitration in all industrial disputes...
Popular in college debates this year, the subject was won from Melbourne by the Crimson orators 3-0 and has been discussed by the Stanford team on its transcontinental tour...
...Emerson went right ahead on the subject of Philadelphia's administration of public health: "Perhaps it will take an epidemic, some dramatic expression of illness, if any such is really heeded, to reveal the true neglect of those measures of prevention found desirable in other large cities...
...Lincoln is the story of how Robert Lincoln in 1897 was found in his home in Manchester, Vt. burning his father's papers and letters. A friend tried to dissuade him, could not, hurriedly called Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who after "a most earnest discussion of the whole subject" persuaded Robert Lincoln to deposit the remainder in the Library of Congress. There they remain, not to be opened until...