Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is more or less necessary, and some of it is--for a strong boy--highly salutary; but I venture to say that hardly any of the conditions surrounding our Freshmen are incapable of improvement, and some of them need very prompt and very thorough-going improvement. It is also worth pointing out that it is the graduates of the pri- vate schools who find these conditions most upsetting, and it for them that the transition from school to college is most critical
SENATOR BUTLER (Rep.): "Most excellent and thorough...
...their judgment. So brilliantly did she play the part, so perfectly defined were her weaknesses and pathos, so irresistible her reading of the wistful lines that she swept the audience from its mental moorings. It is the opinion of these skeptics that to Miss Lord alone is due the thorough public triumph...
This evil is not exggerated. It is a real obstacle in the way of a thorough education, in the sense employed by Dean Holmes. If it is to be remedied, more tutors must be added to the departments. At present, so little time can a tutor devote to any one student that he can not know him or his needs. Every system of large-scale education reduces to a bare minimum the contacts between professor and student. It was hoped that the tutor would counteract this disadvantage of a large college. But when forced to share himself among too many...
Miss Arthur did a thorough job. The supporting cast was brilliant...