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...problem of the College authorities is to devise a machinery of academic administration which is adjusted to the capacity and temper of the undergraduates with which it must deal. The student body is quite naturally inclined to place an estimate of higher worth on that capacity than does the faculty. But both will accept as psychologically sound the observation that the average student will do no or little scholastic work for which he receives no or little official credit. It is because of this complex that the tutorial system can not develop properly at present; and it is this same...
...interim. When Congress assembled, it refused to consent to Stanton's removal and he returned to his office in the War Department building. President Johnson, however, appointed General Lorenzo Thomas Secretary of War. When Thomas tried to take over the Department, Stanton refused to budge. He had a hot temper and a sharp tongue. He sat tight, even lived in his office for a number of days. He called General Grant to his aid and General Carr was placed in charge of the War Department building to prevent Stanton's ejection by force...
...Socialists had been practiced. Monarchist guns barked their medley of jubilation. The Lokal Anziger printed a letter which clearly revealed the painful fact that ex-Chancellor Bauer had accepted money from the Barmats. The Socialist Party forced Bauer to resign from the Reichstag?but nothing it could do could temper the cracking shrapnel that spat its hate on every side. Dr. Anton Hofle, ex-Minister of Ports, resigned temporarily from the Reichstag and his trial was rumored; for, although he was not accused of profiting financially, it remained a fact that the Barmat transactions were approved by him. Other revelations...
Dissentior, altercation, prevarication, ire and other manifestations of temper uncontrolled were the order of several days' poppy talk in the halls of the League of Nations at Geneva, where some Nations of the world continued their long conference on the opium question (TIME...
...continuation of this course under the principles which have distinguished its beginning, with better facilities, with a thoroughly representative and brilliant group of speakers is an answer to the critics of Harvard's religious attitude. It is an answer which fits the temper of the age and the spirit of the University. The P. B. H.'s course on religion should become as much an institution as Freshman Hygienc or History...