Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debating is the exclusive choice of political subjects, topics which often afford more opportunity for matching statistics and specious "debating points" than for matching careful thought, fine language, and ready wit. The discussion of subjects in the fields of fine arts and history as well as in politics would tend to draw more, and perhaps abler, men into debating and to arouse general undergraduate interest...
...initiated by Johns Hopkins in 1893. College, medical school and interneship bring a medical student (about 22.000 are now preparing themselves in the U. S.) to almost 30 before he or she is considered fit to practice medicine. "All wrong," insisted Surgeon William James Mayo. He believes college courses tend to dull the student's mind when it is most receptive. Dean Wilburt Cornell Davison of young Duke University's School of Medicine...
...figures compiled in order to determine how far the cosmopolitan purpose of the House Plan is exemplified in the selection of Sophomores and Juniors for five units next year, tend to show that numerically at least, men of different school training, geographical environment and academic interests will be distributed in fairly equal proportions. One or two noticeable exceptions to this rule require a wood of explanation. The balance of public and private school men in Adams House, for instance, is upset because men now living in Randolph and Westmorly are allowed to retain their rooms...
...make the tutorial staff of each House representative. This will preclude the necessity of refusing men on the grounds that another House is better equipped to take them. In addition, the inclusion of a fairly large number of tutors on the committee choosing men for each House will tend to counteract the instinctive prejudices that the chief officials may have for students concentrating in their own or allied fields...
...measure, sanctioned as it is by Congress, is open in general attack. Besides the obvious difficulty of financing the loan, there is some real danger that it will seriously weaken the government's financial position. Also the psychological factor that a measure so perilously resembling the dole may tend to break down national confidence and stability must be recognized. This criticism is particularly applicable as the loan will be available to many men not in actual need at the moment...