Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thorough course in Geology will be part of the summer's work, the daily program consisting of alternate periods of two hours of climbing and one hour of study. The investigation of rocks and glaciers is expected to take on new interest as new specimens are encountered at every few hundred feet of climbing in the setting of renowned scenic grandeur...
...While a thorough knowledge of two foreign languages would be an undoubted asset to any American student, the educational conditions, as well as the geographical situation, of this country make it practically impossible for colleges to place so heavy a demand on their undergraduates. Harvard has so regarded such a requirement and has worked out a compromise between that and the minimum of one language consisting in a reading knowledge of another one and a beginner's knowledge of another language. The survey of a representative section of the Senior class printed in this morning's CRIMSON shows that...
...their college path to be surmounted by the easiest method possible. As few men consider them means toward linguistic attainment as actually learn one to say nothing of two language because of their imposition. A change to a requirement of only one language to be met through a thorough written and oral examination or by a satisfactory grade in a course as advanced as French 6 or German 2, would give the brilliant student something to absorb his attention, and the weak student an intelligible goal worthy of his efforts...
Laurence Dickey '30, who has been at how in all the preliminary brushes, as a result of recent developments, appears destined to yield his how oar to De Wolf Hubbard '29, of last year's jayvee crew, who is being given a thorough test...
...Notably, Ida Minerva Tarbell, author of The History oj the Standard Oil Co., a thorough job on the seamy side. More recently, muckraking is not so popular and Miss Tarbell has written on the bright side, The Life of Judge Gary, late chairman of the board of U. S. Steel Corp. Critics wonder what she will do with the additional volume on the Standard Oil Co. that she is planning...