Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needs a scholarship, tutorial is an expensive luxury for which there is no reward. Everywhere, in the rank list, in the general cum laude, the dominance of course credit is subtly emphasized. Now that the budget has become a sharp issue with the University, the tutorial system tend to stand more and more at odds with the course system. It is this which gives the suggestion to restrict it so great an importance; it is this which calls for decisiveness and leadership, for the stake is a crucial one. It calls not for a minor adjustment between touchy and conflicting...
...college, but can not be fitted into a university. It is possible to make this system flourish in American universities, so long as these universities have undergraduate students, and the tutorial system is confined to them. However, some lecture courses are needed for stimulation; the work would tend to become intolerably boring if confined to tutorials and reading alone...
Nkol Mvolan, meaning ''Hill of Help," is a Presbyterian station in Cameroons, West Africa. There, deeper in the jungle than any other Presbyterian missionaries, Dr. & Mrs. George W. Thorne tend the bodies and souls of blackamoors, some of whom still vividly remember their cannibal fathers and cannibal mothers...
...should make jobs, not seek them," said Dr. Thomas N. Carvor, professor emeritus of political economy at Harvard. "Men who are potential employers should be given every opportunity to start new businesses, instead of being driven into the mass of men seeking employment from existing enterprises. Laws which tend to discourage entrepreneurs should not be passed. The idea that a huge corporation like General Motors, employing thousands of men, should be the target for hostile legislation, thereby decreasing its ability to give employment and to expand is economically unsound...
...they would tend to subordinate drinking to eating, and would make that subordination natural in the public mind. We have tried to reform the public mind by an imposed abstention, and we have seen that the reform must proceed largely from, and must be moulded by, that mind itself. The barbarism of the frontier has left its impress on our drinking habits long enough; now that a class has arisen which is moving away from the frontier in other things, our law must keep pace with it, over anticipating its upward trends, and recognizing the need for social stability which...