Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor drastic changes, but the system is not yet so successful as it might be. Tutorial work is most successful with the serious student (he need not be brilliant), and this suggest that the student is more often to blame for the failure of the system than the tutor...
...system of instruction is a human institution--a simple fact which seems to escape the attention of student surveys. You have asked, and received, my answers to a number of questions. I suggest, now, that you make an estimate of the probable value of any changes made in the present system in ignorance of the problem of administration and finance, and in ignorance of the necessarily unpredictable results of the implied alteration in the relation of parts of large whole...
...every proper way to be of help. It is my view that disarmament, intergovernmental debts and permanent economic arrangements require selective treatment. ... As to disarmament, your policy is clear and satisfactory. ... As to debts, certainly the Chief Executive has full authority to conduct preliminary investigations. . . . I am impelled to suggest that these surveys should be limited to determining facts and exploring possibilities rather than fixing policies binding on the incoming administration. ... As to the economic conference, I must respectfully suggest that the appointing of the permanent delegates and the final determination of the program be held in abeyance until after...
...preliminaries. . . . However for me to accept any joint responsibility in the work of exploration might well be construed by other nations as a commitment -moral, even though not legal-as to policies and courses of action. . . . The designation of a man or men of such eminence as your telegram suggests would not imply mere fact-findings; it would suggest the presumption that such representatives were empowered to exchange views on matters of large and binding policy. . . . May I suggest that you proceed with the selection of your representatives to conduct the preliminary exploration necessary with individual debtor nations, making...
...That insignificant, irritable visa incident will not spoil the pleasure of the voyage. . . . It's all forgotten. The trouble with hearings of that kind is that you don't realize until some time has passed just where the inquisitor is trying to get under your skin. I suggest in the future Consuls put pins in their victims' chairs so they will feel stuck from the beginning." In Washington, when hearings on the annual Postal Supply Bill were made public, it was learned that the Post Office Department had traded $1,700 and eight used automobiles...