Word: successively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take this as a personal insult. I have worked for the Republican Party for five years, and, if I may say so, have had some success in getting-out-the-vote. My husband, a Democrat, has failed utterly in trying to do the same for his party...
...insure the success of the House Plan, the tutors must have no part in the administrative duties of the College, restricting themselves to an advisory and social capacity," declared L. D. Peterkin, a member of the Classical Department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a tutor in the Department of English and the Classics, when asked his opinion of the duties of the tutors under the House plan. Peterkin speaks from experience gained as a tutor in the University for the past four years, and from knowledge of the English system in practice at Oxford and Cambridge...
...tutors are to end and those of the proctors or disciplinary officers begin in the future new housing units will have to be decided before the House plan goes into effect. For, as Mr. Peterkin points out in his interview, the responsibility of the tutor in effecting the success of the experiment will be great, and it is essential that any proctorial policing should not handicap him in his advisory and social capacity. In the first place, his proposed role not only as academic supervisor but also as friend and confidant would not find duties of an administrative character congenial...
...Even the more advanced countries found the existing system unsatisfactory and introduced war governments, which smacked strongly of dictatorships. In the less advanced countries the war led to total collapse, as in Russia and in Turkey. In 1917 the liberal experiment in Russia proved entirely inadequate and Lenin's success depended in large measure on his realization of the need of a strong hand and a temporary dictatorship. But Italy is certainly the most interesting and instructive example, for there the liberal system, introduced by Cavour, had been in operation for over 50 years. There can be no doubt that...
...case the present undertaking meets with the favorable success that Professor Taussig now believes it will attain, he intends to follow it with a supplementary survey of similar nature for the professions...