Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From time to time the charge has been repeated that American literature and drama is controlled by a semisecret cabal of radical young critics residing in New York, but the " exposure" has never been thorough. There were rumors; there were hints; but it remained for The Boston Post to analyze the critical dictatorship with a truly ruthless...
...develop cordial relations among the English-speaking nations of the world, left their task half accomplished. Americans have poured across the sea to Oxford and the association with Englishmen in their own country has been profitable. But the feeble trickle of Englishmen to American universities has prevented the thorough understanding which Rhodes intended. "Reciprocity", in this case, is necessary, and the stimulation has been provided. Each year the Davison scholarships will support one student from Oxford and one for Cambridge at Harvard, Yale and Princeton; in all six men. As with the Rhodes scholarships, general fitness and ability, as well...
...each case, form a definite nucleus around which to build up a permanent student representation. However, small numbers may almost prove of advantage. At Oxford, there is danger lest the size of the group of Americans defeat its purpose, for the students are surrounded by their own countrymen, and thorough intermingling with the English is hampered. The two Englishmen at Harvard will have no such obstacle to becoming acquainted with the peculiarities of Americans. They may well fear partial "Americanization...
...Gardner did not declare that there would be less religious instruction in the future, but that a more thorough and systematic organization must replace the present Sunday School. " Week day is the time for religious instruction, when the child is in a receptive mood, when effective teachers can be secured, and when discipline can be maintained...
Although the practice will end on Friday, the coaches feel that they have attained their purpose by discovering a great deal of promising material, and by giving all the candidates a thorough grounding in the fundamentals...