Word: tends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than a decade ago. For one of the recommendations is that boys from approved schools who rank among the highest seventh scholastically in the graduating class may, if recommended by the school, be admitted without examination. . . . At the same time certain restrictive changes will go into effect which will tend to reduce the number of men admitted under the old system with conditions or low grades on their entrance examinations...
...motion was defeated. Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, opposed it. She declared : " I believe in the active participation of women in politics inside the political parties. ... I have found that they are realists in politics as opposed to the widespread sentimentality among men. . . . they still tend to resort to public opinion to support their program...
These results would tend to mark Yale and the Navy as the leading Eastern crews. Unfortunately they do not row against each other in any of the subsequent regattas...
...fact that everyone stands on the brink of a precipice does not in any way tend to diminish the number of University activities...
...University, E. M. Grossman '96, of Saint Louis, in a report prepared too late for discussion with other members of the committee, recommends "that a special committee be appointed to observe and study methods of nomination and election of Overseers and to report such changes and improvements as will tend to give Overseers a more truly representative character". Eight members of the committee, in addition to the chairman, approved the report; from ten more to whom the report was submitted no replies were received. Two members the ground that they consider the present method satisfactory, and a third adds...