Word: thoroughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race downstream, the Freshman and combination eights to go only two miles. The object of the race was to settle clearly the relation between the two University eights, and the decisiveness of the result was thus not unsatisfactory to the coaches. No changes are contemplated, however, until after thorough consultation and possibly further trials. In the opinion of the coaches both University crews could have done better at a higher stroke...
However conscientious and able a student may be, he cannot be expected to do himself justice in an examination which covers three to four months of work, without a fairly thorough review of that work before he is subjected to the test. Yet this semester not a few students will be asked to appear for one or two or even three examinations with practically no time for preparation, unless they attempt to carry on a review during the days and nights when they are expected to devote their attentions to daily class assignments...
...strongest intellectual center of progressive movement through the last few years has been the Government University in Peking. American missionaries have been accused of participation in the popular movements especially against Japan. The truth of the matter is that students in missionary institutions are trained in thorough knowledge of English, History, and Political Science, with the strongest curb against political action on the part of the missionary heads. Despite this curb the students who realize that they alone know the situation, naturally become almost fanatical in their patriotism...
...Must have a thorough speaking and reading knowledge of French...
...personal feeling is that we must restrict the law profession to those whom we know to have had, in addition to an adequate preparation at college and at a certified law school, a thorough moral grounding. I don't believe this is possible by working out a scheme of an inner and outer bar such as has been proposed by the Carnegie report. In this system, the higher grade of lawyers would be permitted to practice in the inner bar, while those failing to attain this position, either from moral or legal failings, would have to content themselves with...