Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essentially a human protest against the ruthlessness of economic law. The English coal industry is suffering from that anathema of Thomas Carlyle, "overproduction". More capital is invested, more men are employed in coal mining than can possibly be supported on its profits. And in this age of specialization, the transfer of either capital or labor to another occupation requires time and initiative precluding the possibility of a quick readjustment Quite the brightest spot in the whole situation is the unobtrusive announcement that the British birthrate has dropped toward the French level. If continued, this decline offers automatic insurance against similar...
...another university, big, heterogeneous Harvard has reached a point at which she feels obliged to pick, choose and restrict her matriculants in kind and number. Last fortnight candidates for entrance next autumn received notice that the classes of 1930 to 1934 inclusive would be limited to 1,000, including transfer students and "repeaters." This meant a cut of 150 or so below this year's freshman class, definitely a cut but hardly immoderate. The hue and cry that arose was over the news that the committee reserved discretionary powers in admitting candidates without examinations...
...lecture system," it has been sagely observed, "Is a device to transfer facts from the notebook of a professor to the notebook of a student without passing them through the head of either...
...justification of this slipshod connection between error and its correction is an avowedly personal one. The secrecy is designed to protect instructors from unpopularity among students whom they report. On its face, this apprehensive anonymity is unscholarly and harmful. For, each upper classman, not a transfer student, has passed or anticipated English A. He knows the elements of composition. Yet in cases of deficiency, in default of specific allegation, he must make a more or less general review of rhetorical principles To confront him with his actual written errors and thus to remind him also of the specific conditions under...
...shall not undertake to say that there is anything I can do, or we can do. . . I think, as President Wilson said, that the transfer of the Southern Tyrol was a great injustice to the people of the Tyrol and if I could be of any help in righting this wrong I would take action...