Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...denied that, although there are frequent exceptions, many instructors tend to use the same lectures year after year with only slight modifications, grinding out stereotyped ideas in rapid succession without any indication that they are being absorbed by the class. Not without cause, therefore, has the lecture system been defined as the "process of transferring the notes of the instructor to the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either...
...Reduction of unessentials and further economy will lessen the taxpayers' burden" declares Mr. Hoover. The establishment of foreign credit will tend to prevent over-production,-a menace to our present industrial situation. Development of great waterways, the admission of ocean liners into the Great Lakes, adjustment of our transportation system all of these will lead to greater commercial unity and better business conditions. To stimulate business through a reorganization of the Department of Commerce is a much-needed advance in governmental efficiency...
...sabers; the dismounted work to develop the muscles of the wrist and arm, and also to accustom the men to the use of the weapon; the mounted exercises to give the students practice in the control of a horse, while using a saber. The training, it is hoped will tend to prepare the men for playing polo, in case the equipment, ponies, stables, and field should become available. The use of the saber, while mounted, is very similar to that of the polo mallet, and the course should make available a large number of men trained in the control...
...hours of the period of time spent in attempting to explain and make attractive the numerous and devious methods of admission to Harvard with which we have been favored during those years, it seems that the time has come to consider seriously some of the unreasonable admission requirements which tend to make the nervous candidate shy at the thought of Harvard. If we wish to compete in numbers with the other large universities, why not, in the name of common sense, remove some of the hurdles and hazards which turn prospective entrants in ever-increasing numbers to the welcoming gates...
There are several specific factors which tend to create discord between the two nations. Japan is immensely over-populated and her expansion is a necessary step in the course of events; the Japanese resent our racial discrimination against them; there is commercial conflict to be reckoned with; and most important of all, by a systematic "education" through the medium of newspapers and motion pictures, an utterly false impression about each other is cultivated in the two peoples. At home, we are fed upon the sensationalism of cheap dailies and periodicals and anti-Asiatic films; those who have investigated conditions...