Word: informativeness
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...evident that the only certain way to prove a man has been buried is to have the imprint of his finger taken just before lowering his body into the grave. And this is a detail that it is useful to know, as mystery plays and popular novels inform...
...trusted to vote right, as Jefferson maintained,--if their, interest is first aroused. But therein lies the difficulty. In nine cases out of ten, failure to vote can only be charged to laziness. The plea of "disinterestedness" is a ready excuse for all who are too lazy to inform themselves enough to vote intelligently, and an unintelligent vote is worse than no vote...
...Yale's solution puts emphasis too much on wholesale distribution of information: followed to its logical conclusion, such a system of lectures would supplant the old system which, with all its faults, has that very desirable personal element, student contact with the faculty. This would be a loss. The real trouble with the faculty advisor system is that the advisors are so over-worked that they have but little time to inform themselves or their advisees concerning courses or fields of concentration. With some ten or fifteen men in line to be advised the man "in the presence" does...
...order to inform the students of the University of the various regulations in regard to the Christmas Recess, the Dean's Office has issued the following announcement...
...inform new students and remind old ones we reprint the following paragraph which customarily precedes communications in this column...