Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case may be. But it is to be regretted that there is no sliding scale on which might be judged the professors who assign these semi-annual quizzes. For an examination paper examines the man who gives it as well as him who takes it, and from this point of view many of our faculty would flunk...
...Junior Prommenade has been marked during the last four or five years by a steady rate of decline. To bring to a merciful and speedy end that which is slowly dying of itself is often an act of kindness, and there is no exaggeration of the metaphor to point out here that no observance of a tradition is preferable to one which is the ghost of its former self...
...President Hoover's method of approach to this problem there is no sign that he is conscious of attacking the problem from a new point of view; indeed, I am quite sure he has no such consciousness, nor any other from of self-consciousness about his relation to it. Yet a student examining the steps taken by the President and the comparatively small number of his public utterances on this subject can find evidence of what is in fact the case, namely, a man with scientific and engineering training approaching the problem of increasing the assurance of peace; a mind...
...qualified, beneficially or otherwise as may be, by his individual experience, is illustrated by Mr. Hoover's reference to freedom of the seas in his Armistice Day speech. For what is commonly meant by freedom of the seas, Mr. Hoover has approval, as most statesmen have. On one point, within the broader field he is specific, and his being specific arises both from his habit of thinking in terms of forces and from his direct experience with food during the Great...
...last the Vagabond, a true Odysseus in word as well as action, comes to the point, which is his belief that a little light reading entirely disassociated from all academic connections, will serve to pass the long winter evenings and the moments between...