Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...projected reform which is as yet only tentative, in theory would seem to be a progressive and worth-while move which would allow students to proceed in their education at a rate more in accord with individual mental capacities than is possible under present conditions. A difficulty present itself, however, in finding a more accurate gauge of qualities, as intangible as a student's "mental capacity", and "reaction to the university's opportunities" than exists under the credit system which President Hutchins wishes to supplant. Such a gauge is necessarily the foundation on which the new system must rest...
...been made that pictures would do away with the lesser known educators and leave only those on top to do the teaching but these predictions have failed to take into account the personal element. After all, it is better for a student to get personal attention from a second-rate instructor than impersonal lectures from the highest man in the field. As historical milestones talking films have an assured future but as a medium of education their future is limited to a large degree...
Meanwhile in New York City taxi grumblings, never still, grew louder. All companies complained that current prices were too low for profits. The city has some 250 cab companies, owning 24,000 taxicabs, operated by 70,000 drivers. The prevalent rate, cheapest in the U. S., is 15? for the first quarter-mile, 5? for each succeeding quarter-mile. Small companies, ramshackle independents charge more; their cabs are avoided by the city-wise. All drivers get 40% of metred receipts. With twelve-hour shifts, day men may get $30 or $40 per week. Night men, with more business, say they...
...announced that it would soon have 1,000 Ford cabs on the city streets, would charge only 15 cents per mile. Fearing violent taxi warfare, Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen who licenses all cabs and drivers interrupted his Florida fishing to telephone a stern prohibition against the new cut rate...
...majority of people with whom I have conversed upon the subject seem to favor the idea of having the Prom. At any rate the subject should be decided by the class as a whole, if only to overcome the feeling that the action of Mr. Trainer in deciding for the class, at a time when no one had the time or inclination to reply (the beginning of the examination period) that the Prom should not be held, was a distinctly autocratic and high-handed method of settling the question...