Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have also felt a certain tendency in France lately," continued Professor Levy Bruhl, "to reduce the number of lecture courses and to devote more time to the individual. The student should have an opportunity to talk with his instructor and to learn at first hand the answers to the questions that trouble him. In this closer relationship, there is much to be gained both by pupil and teacher...
...Fairbanks even goes so far as to declare that General Pershing is "biased by his profession"; yet General Pershing advocates a standing army of exactly half the size recommended by a civilian Secretary of War, and certain civilian members of Congress...
Lampy has once more put over a scoop, and it has skilfully frolicked with the qualities that makes "America's greatest magazine" great. But it is a scoop that certain Boston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles papers won't copy...
...motto "Education at any price" is more and more popular. When reading is assigned or recommended in a book of which only one copy has reached the libraries of Greater Boston, certain lovers of learning usually appropriate it from the shelves of Widener two days before the hour examination and browse through it. When the examination has passed the book reappears. Common considerations of honesty and fair play do not deter these people; they brave the fear of discovery and the wrath of the librarian in their omnivorous search for knowledge. To call these people schoolboys is to understate...
...method of choosing Rhodes scholars, put into practice for the first time this fall, remedies three defects in the old system. The committees of se-Fruition have been reorganized. In the past, when certain College officials were the judges, there was a tendency to reserve the honors for men from their several institutions. The committee is now composed of former Rhodes scholars, and their familiarity with conditions at Oxford makes them competent to select students best fitted to meet these conditions with success...