Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system of marking so as to do away with the alphabetical "A. B. C. D. E." grading and to put in its place a system under which students would be arrange as "Good," "Satisfactory," and "University" or simply "Pass" and "Not Pass." Such a system, it is felt, would tend to shift the emphasis away from course grades and be more in conformity with the tutorial system...
...system, is whether the public school graduate, generally at a financial and social disadvantage, can fit into the private university that is composed in large part of prep school men. The answer is not that the private college should adept a more rigid policy of exclusion which would thus tend to make it over more undemocratic and snobbish, but that it should make an effect to preserve an intelligently worked out proportion between the two groups of entreats a preparation which, other considerations aside, would not put the high school man in such a minority that he would feel hopelessly...
...duel with the U. S. with some complacency: "We would stand to win an advantage. Despite the situation created by the abandonment of the gold standard in the United States, we will hold most of the trumps. We are not handicapped by any gold clauses, such as those which tend to prevent the American authorities from depreciating the dollar too much. "Moreover, the United States authorities have had practically no experience in exchange control. Apart from occasional intervention in Paris in support of the dollar they have had no opportunity of acquiring the technical knowledge required for such highly intricate...
...great Richelieu for guests; $8,000 vases; gold dinner plates and paper napkins; a ping-pong table of medieval wood; a lavish theatre, where each night is shown the latest talking picture film, very likely flown that day from Hollywood; and 150 men and women menials to tend the comfort of their lord...
...goes. Every one will agree with Professor Babbitt up to a certain point. Some will become disciples, and others will lay more stress on those sides of literature to which he, on his own admission and intention, does not do justice. The lectures tend to become repetitious; a bit too much time is spent on Rousscan's Confessions; but the course on the whole is a stimulating one and one of the very best advocated in the little green pamphlet. Whether they sit at his feet, or whether they learn from him by "intellectual repulsion," the one thing students cannot...