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...view of the fact that a contest with Yale is due in the near future, it is hoped that University Hall will take immediate action on this suggestion, and inform the Houses as to just what scholastic leeway it will permit to the House athletes...
...second day of his filibuster Senator Long appeared on the floor in a loose wing collar which gave his Adam's apple greater leeway. To waste time and get a rest, he sent a document to the clerk's desk to be read aloud but Senator Glass, determined to wear out his adversary, objected. Senator Long read it himself, slowly, lingering over each word. "Am I going too fast?" he impishly asked. The Senate was practically empty as he expatiated about decentralizing wealth, remonetizing silver, taxing capital...
From an educational point of view, the Foundation's criticism of the two chief methods of determining college admissions (certification and examination) can hardly be refuted. Certification, used in 90 per cent of American colleges, permits too much leeway to be any accurate standard. Little account is taken of the frequently haphazard or outdated school courses, and there have also been more than a few cases of kind schoolmasters padding a student's grade. The Old Plan examination method of the oldest and best-known American universities depends too much on the chance that the pupil will have the ideal...
...Indiana came out with the flat announcement : ''Conditions do not warrant even the present prices. . . . The Indiana company is sincerely desirous of seeing producers receive a satisfactory price for crude. But it is convinced that an advance in the face of present conditions would simply provide leeway for further abuses and delay progress toward permanent recovery" When oil was booming, when wildcat wells were going down by the thousand, when the first great pipelines were still pencil marks on engineers' maps, when promoters were swearing that they would checkerboard the States of Texas and Oklahoma with their...
...Plan system saves the teacher from being whirled around endlessly on this Ixion wheel. Since the student is examined directly on only one year's work, and since he is given much leeway for his answers under the New Plan, the teacher has much more freedom in giving preparation for New Plan Examinations. Under this, the development of the student in the class is the paramount factor in obtaining entrance to college. The teacher does not have to be a vending machine of examination answers. Instead of kowtowing to an omnipotent Board, he may follow his star. To quote...