Word: whim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implications. The effect of the replacement of Dr. Glenn Frank by another man of liberal tendencies might cause no great effect on the educational life of the state university but the establishment of precedent by the displacement of a liberal president of a supposedly-liberal university through the whim of the supposedly-progressive governor of that state would be a telling blow to educational freedom in America...
...championing of Lincoln in the face of some of the Democrats in her own family was partly a childish whim, partly an indefinable urge to help the under...
...examinations are to be locked in a vault for a year or two and then thrown away, attention is focused on the chaos that rules the University's blue book policy. Both in general courses and in special examinations of this sort, the student is left entirely to the whim of the instructor as to whether he sees his work again or not. For though some teachers are willing to hand back and discuss their students' papers, the average undergraduate has too often been forced to look on examinations as ancient history as soon as the proctor collects them...
...yesterday comes a full-panoplied report from another Army board which reversed, most opportunely for the President, the findings of its own engineers. Even in these days of governmental terminology, $170,000,000 represents a large sum, whether the money is for a presidential whim or not. The canal, indeed, is not even partially self-liquidating, for no tolls will be charged. It is a very notable fact even the ship-owners--the supposed beneficiaries--register a complete lack of enthusiasm for the project. Objections by the Geological Survey, raised in connection with the canal's probable effect upon...
...result of both intellectual training and experience, Dr. Hutchins insists, contrary to the existing curricula of most colleges, that the university can supply only the former. There is no substitute for experience; every business has its own idiosyncrasies, its own methods its own peculiarities. Universities today bow to every whim of corporations giving narrow, technical courses that really should be items of expense on the corporation balance sheets...