Word: fixedly
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...requirements is to ascertain whether a boy is properly prepared to do college work. If he is not prepared his admission will result in little benefit to himself and in less to the college. From this point of view it may be contended that the college authorities should alone fix the standards. But on the other hand it is not possible for any college to fix its requirements without regard whatsoever to the existing curricula of the schools. The colleges must take, not always what they would like, but what the schools are able to give. The ideal arrangement, therefore...
Cornell Freshman Crew--Bow, Hoffman; 2, Garnsey; 3, Scheanan; 4, Fix; 5, Dollbaum; 6, Hough; 7, Calleson; stroke, Wheeler; coxswain, Miller...
Less spectacular is the report that Great Britain and France have patched up their differences in regard to the treaty. France has agreed to fix a definite sum for the German indemnity. The French Premier, moreover, has consented to hold a series of conferences with the German Chancellor to discuss common problems. The British, on their part, accede to Millerand's demand that the Germans be complied to disarm...
...understands fully that powerful interests today are determined to achieve reaction in industry if possible. They seek to disband or cripple the organizations of workers. They seek to reduce wages and thus reduce the standard of living. They seek to keep free from restriction their power to manipulate and fix prices. They seek to destroy the democratic impulse of the workers which is bred into their movement by the democracy of the American Republic...
...effective secondary education must not be minimized. Dartmouth's new requirements do not aim to minimize it. Applicants for admission must still have had four years of secondary work and certain English and mathematics. But for the rest, it is left for the accredited preparatory schools to fix their own requirements. This is important. Secondary schools should be more distinctive; less purely subservient to the colleges. For a headmaster of high calibre knows what is the best training for young boys, and it is undesirable for him to be hampered. If he is not, the chances are that more...