Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Denominal worship has been of necessity forced to play a minor part in active life of large educational institutions. This does not mean, however, that students are therefore less religious or that modern teaching methods tend to make them so. It means that religion has been relegated to one's own personal feeling and belief. Few will be able to read this series of talks and still remain under the impression that the spiritual has no place in the life of youth. It is possibly emphasized less than at certain previous periods but its presence is still very real...
...England has a great advantage over other parts of the country, in that it has one-fifth of the consumers of the country at its front door. New England has to pay no exhorbitant freight rates that tend to take away a great share of the profit of farming. Freight rates are so high in the west that it costs the consumer of California no more to buy Argentina products than it does to buy Iowa products. New England is without this disadvantage...
Undoubtedly this play holds possibilities for improvement over the present system of last minute cramming. It would eliminate a hurried review with the consequent mere superficial knowledge of the subject, and, by permitting a leisurely and thorough preparation, would tend toward deeper understanding of the courses studied. The proposed scheme would also bring greater fairness, for every member of the undergraduate body would have an equal amount of time for review, thus doing away with the necessity, in some cases, of attempting to prepare for four or five finals within several days. It is conceivable that this new plan might...
...will do the farmer no good. For as soon as higher prices are created for a crop, more of that crop will be produced, and the last state will be worse than the first. Rebuttal: with fair prices for all crops (including swine), farmers will not tend to produce an excess of one and an insufficiency of another...
...make this letter too long, I THOROUGHLY WISH THAT EVERY CITIZEN OF DENVER COULD HAVE THE CURRENT ISSUE OF TIME AND I AM VERY SURE THAT IF YOU WILL SEND OUT SOME SAMPLE COPIES THEY WILL TEND TO RAISE YOUR CIRCULATION...