Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep stricter training than men engaged in some of the other sports, and they certainly receive as stiff work-outs, if those factors are of any importance. Still another argument in favor of the recognition advocated is the fact that an increase in the number of major sports would tend to diminish some of the unnecessary glory which at presents hovers about them...
...great scholars last week, much as his whimsical friend Dr. Albert Einstein, who still was in Pasadena, might have done. Nobel Laureates Millikan & Compton are both correct in their theories, testified Dr. Epstein. Of cosmic rays which reach earth's atmosphere. 30% are Compton electrons (or protons) and tend to congregate around the magnetic poles. The remaining 70% are Millikan photons, darting right through the air to land...
...arguments for the bill, Senator Nicholson has pointed out that this measure would tend to distribute state employment more widely. In this he is of course artfully neglecting to remember that there are many administrative positions in government which are best managed by men who are students and whose abilities for officacious service to the community consequently surpass by far those of short-haul politicians. It is unfortunate that the political life of an informed and able man is entirely in the hands of politicians who concentrate only on their present term of office with especial reference to its effect...
...Graduate School: those seeking an M.A. degree to permit them to teach in a secondary school; those wishing to do further research before starting industrial work; and those training for a teaching position in a college. The members of the first and second classes far outnumber the third and tend to retard the people trying to get ahead scholastically. President Lowell's action in establishing the Society of Fellows is in part an effort toward freeing these especially gifted men from such restraint...
Ideally the tutorial system should offer an unlimited opportunity to the student to get at the meat of a subject with as little hampering as possible, but it requires, and for that reason develops, maturity and interest. At present it is badly cramped by course requirements. These courses tend to prolong an immature and perfunctory attitude and seem to me thoroughly at odds with the spirit of tutorial work. A good deal of what is wrong and inadequate with the tutorial system is due to the fact that it is regarded as being merely an afterthought and distinctly secondary...