Word: united
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world at large success is usually the result of self-willed activity. In refusing to throw upon the Junior the responsibility for his own progress, the College is repeating the error of the secondary school: it is doing nothing to bridge the gap between it and the higher unit. Examinations are no doubt valuable as an exercise in clear thinking under high pressure, but in their other manifestations they are undesirable, and, at any rate, the Junior and Senior receives enough of such training in his nonconcentration courses. The examination must...
...schilling was adopted in Austria as a new unit of currency. The old crown became exchangeable at 10,000 to one schilling...
...Princeton the course is still the unit. At Swarthmore the individual is the unit. And when the Harvard system is in force throughout the entire college the individual will be the unit of instruction, but he will come to understand his subject is three ways instead of one. Those three means are: through his courses, through his tutor, and through his own independent efforts...
...action on the Cramton Bill to set up the Prohibition Unit as an independent Bureau in the Treasury Department...
...made a game of his long war with space. It gives him immense amusement and satisfaction, by virtue of some obscure mental deficiency, to measure the speed of his puny limbs against some unit of speed; such researches he terms "sport," tabulates his results with infinite precision, and rejoices preposterously whenever some new record is brought to his credit. Civilized women, because the width of their hips makes their walk an inevitable, though sometimes a graceful, waddle, have not contributed much to this imbecilic form of experimentation. Their speed upon cinders, earth, boards, is pathetic...