Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report which Dr. Kirkpatrick has drawn up composes what is probably the most thorough treatise on this subject ever written. Dr. Kirkpatrick is by no means antagonistic to the management of the University, but he points out many respects in which he believes its government might be improved. He stresses most the difference between a faculty government and that of a non-resident corporation such as is now in force, and declares that this system might be improved by faculty control...
Stuart P. Sherman - "Since Charles Dickens lashed us in Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes, no other novelist, English or American, has given us a satirical castigation so thorough or so deserved...
...expedition to Western China is now in Pekin, preparing for a long journey to the interior provinces by cart and camel. America has lagged behind in Asiatic research, and only now is undertaking to train young men in Asiatic study and to give them field work and opportunities of thorough research...
...western universities are alone in their field, and, in general, do not face the big-city question. Perhaps a comparative study of Oxford and the University of London would provide as parallel an example as can be found. At all events, so comprehensive an action must wait upon a thorough investigation of the changes it may effect in the social and educational structure...
Gratifying as it is to notice a thorough-going reaction on the part of the student body at Harvard University as regards Professor Baker's resignation and all that this meant for Harvard as a seat of learning and culture, it is more than disheartening to learn that Harvard's President in his several addresses at the alumni clubs of the University has tried to justify and defend the attitude of the Board of Trustees toward the same question; on what grounds, for what reason?--simply because a theatre for young playwrights and authors would be a useless fixture...