Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual practice, raising for general discussion the question of whether it was worth retaining or whether it might better be discarded. In the main, the many abuses or misconstructions of the Honor System have prejudiced us against it, but we remain perfectly open minded on the matter, believing that thorough discussion of the problem is one of the best means for reaching a healthy solution. Several times, also, we have taken occasion to point out institutions where a proposed Honor System has been rejected by students, as at Harvard; where it has met severe enough criticism to gain official attention...
...however, some geological evidence which points to the existence of a large training school of physical culture in connection with the prevalent totalistic religion (see Report under Bunker, Tiger). This is an interesting example of the new light shed on the social history of Neotribal man by the thorough researches of the best critical brains of today; but this short review can only indicate those results which will necessitate a sweeping revision of our views on outstanding problems of American history. They affect three distinct periods...
There are in Oxford sufficient traces of the same evils found in Harvard is prove that the tutorial system in itself is not a guarantee for anything. It is better than the lecture system if the tutors are very good and if the undergraduates have a thorough secondary education and sufficient leisure not a demand immediate results. After all, the best of Oxford is not due to a system but to a civilization. Perhaps the two will never be incidental...
...Dial" number of the Advocate had also been suppressed because of the objectional nature of its contents. The Boston American made the statement that "Copies of the Harvard Advocate of the date of April 15 were removed from the newsstands of Cambridge by the police today" but, on thorough investigation, this was found to be untrue. Captain Hurley of the Police force explained that no action had been taken against the Advocate and that, to the best of his knowledge, no steps were being considered toward suppression...
...Boston social workers are coming more and more to realize that the double standard for volunteer and paid workers must go. All societies are preparing a new set of principles. They are threefold: more careful choice of workers with a thorough explanation of their obligations, a wise placement of workers in tasks which interest them, and a better liaison between the two elements...