Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continue to place a premium on such action, and take no steps to punish it, future transatlantic planes will have to be built with special cabins for stowaways, and Congress will have to establish some new honor to confer on such people. On the other hand if Schrieber received a jail sentence or a heavy fine, which would offset the thousands he is making now, the danger of the recurrence of such actions would be greatly lessened...
Such a system, which puts a premium on short disconnected papers and reducing the final examination to a position of comparative unimportance, cannot justify itself in Harvard University where the whole trend is towards comprehensive examinations, such as the divisional...
...doing special work in different periods, that the student of history has a fair chance of becoming imbued with a sympathetic or enthusiastic appreciation of more than one country or one age. Furthermore the student who passes from the hands of one tutor to another finds a greater premium placed on his own powers of initiative and coordination...
...course of a 1,623-word mass-circular letter mailed last week, soliciting new subscriptions (and offering royal scarlet art-pattern atlases as a premium), wrote Publisher Wilfrid John Funk of the Literary Digest...
...instruction material for a twofold protest. On the one hand it expresses strong disapproval of the type of training demanded by such examinations as that given at mid-years in English 32, and on the other it decries the great intercollegiate race for academic prestige which sets a premium on scholarly production and dismisses with a contemptuous gesture the difficult art of teaching...