Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died last week, of whom one was Paul Raditch. The great Stefan Raditch lay in hospital, visited twice daily by King Alexander, and from Vienna flew famed Diabetic Specialist Dr. Gustav Singer-for Croat Raditch suffers from diabetes and a bullet in the stomach is poor medicine. After a thorough examination, Dr. Gustav Singer said that the patient might survive...
Harvard is so cosely bound to the past by a thousand ties that it may truthfully be said that the undergraduate, or the graduate as well, who is not at least acquainted with its history and rich traditional background, is lacking in a fundamental knowledge if not a thorough appreciation of the College. Nothing drives this home more forcibly than the annual Class Day. To the casual observer it might appear merely another day of meaningless jubilation and glamorous festivity, superficial and transitory. To the initiated, to those who can penetrate beneath the gay laughter, the forced smiles, the whirl...
Studies. The entire year was devoted to a thorough investigation of Athens in the fifth century B. C.-the idea being that when a student masters one civilization he is able to deal intelligently with any civilization or any problem: Dr. Meiklejohn and eleven instructors gave the students a program of reading, conference, discussion, papers to be handed in. They read Plato, Aristotle and Euripides, as.well as occasional chunks of Shakespeare, Shaw, O'Neill. They sketched Greek temples. Art, law, war economics, religion-no phase of Athenian existence was omitted. The climax of the year was a critical review...
...have a family of 12 children ranging in ages from five to 21 years. The thing that is giving me the greatest concern in connection with the rearing of these children and the future of our country is the fact that our citizens seem to be developing a thorough lack of respect for our laws and institutions, and there seems to be a growing feeling that nothing is wrong in life except getting caught...
...difference in preparation between Yale and Harvard for an intercollegiate examination is simply the difference between two distinct attitudes toward the purpose of the last two years of college. At Harvard more emphasis is put upon a thorough comprehensive knowledge of one's main field of study, with other field occupying an ancillary position. The Harvard system devotes two years to an intensive study of a selected field in the belief that the-finest education is obtained by that man who at the end of four years has a detailed knowledge of one extensive field and a broad conception...