Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfortunately true that the American colleges are, from an ideal point of view, altogether too paternalistic. The standardized requirements for admission, as well as for graduation tend to put the stamp of uniformity upon the college course as whole. While for the undergraduate, routine work, routine attendance, and routine examinations heighten this general tendency. All these factors have had a restraining effect upon independent intellectual endeavor. The stimulus to such effort is deadened by the continual pressure of every-day requirements. Then, too, many professors have slipped into the habit of assuming only a routine interest on the part...
...committee in the 66th Congress, but it was not acted upon. It is again in committee and will probably be put on the floor in the near future. If it is passed it will necessitate a reorganization in the educational system all over the country and will tend to bring districts are below par up to a level with the majority of the schools...
Though there are many obstacles, incomplete liquidation, excessive taxes, a critical European situation, and so forth, which tend to retard business activity, when both sides are compared it is most probable that 1922 will be a year of easier money, better business, more stable prices, and higher profits than was 1921; and there is evidence, also, that the general movement of business and wholesale prices will be upward. There is no reason, however, to anticipate a boom...
...definite team A will be chosen until well into the middle of next week. This is all the more the case because it will be necessary to make constant changes in the composition of the defence in order to determine the most effective combination of backs and goal tend...
Unsuccessful as the season was as a whole the Seconds served well their chief purpose of providing material and opposition for the First Team. Besides, learning from 20 to 25 plays each week does not tend to bring perfection to a system of play. The Seconds, during the season, kept a week ahead of the First Team, learning the plays of the University's next opponent. But in view of the result which their labors had no small part in bringing about, their season may well be considered a success...