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...first thing to be considered when a man is looking for summer employment is, first, what the man's primary object is in taking a summer job, and second, the amount of money which he finds it desirable to earn...
...expense to each of the jurymen. We get $3 a day. Usually our carfares are not paid, that is, they are paid only once a week. My expenses for attending this trial have been higher than $6 a day. I don't care about that. But what I object to, and think I have a right to object to, is to have to sit in a courtroom day after day having my time taken up by idiotic objections from a lot of attorneys on points that don't amount to that! (snapping his fingers...
...What we want to find out is the facts. But the attorneys say we can't listen to them. They shout: 'Don't answer: I object,' before a question is half asked...
...seemed to our committee that the main difficulty at Harvard was to secure better adjustment between the various features which already form a part of the Harvard plan of education, and that this adjustment should be governed by the needs of the students themselves. This is the object of our report...
...problem of specialization. A superficial knowledge of the subject matter in several fields does not offer the needed broadening and training of minds which the situation in colleges calls for. I would suggest rather a compromise study of some related whole which would have as its primary object the training of speed and accuracy in the student mind rather than the filling of it with great amounts of subject matter. We might for instance, devote the whole Freshman year to a study of one period in Greek history...