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...students seeking entrance to Graduate Schools. The system has been tried at law schools and found wanting. It was found that the questions of the trained lawyers who gave these test did not yield satisfactory results. Their professional attitude hindered them from reaching a proper level for the raw applicant, as yet unschooled in the legal point of view...
...university grade at the beginning of the Sophomore instead of the Junior year, the problems of transition will always be more difficult than in the average college, the pace faster, and the rate of mortality somewhat higher. But if we are to derive the best possible results from the raw material which is sent to us, give every one an equal opportunity to make good according to his talents, and provide greater incentive for scholarly work, it is necessary for us to give careful attention to ways and means of reducing unnecessary failures, improving the quality of instruction, adjusting instruction...
...first two units over the others, there will have been no experimental stage scientifically conducted so that various formulas and combinations might be tried. But even when the whole seven dormitories are in full swing next September, the House Plan will not be a reality. Nothing but the raw elements will have been poured in, as they have been poured into Lowell House and Dunster House this fall. The refining process will be slow...
...power to carry through an emergency policy." This policy would be: 1) "Building within the commonwealth a civilization . . . largely insulated from the wrecking forces of the rest of the world," this by means of tariff agreements with the Dominions; 2) protection of the British consumer against increased food and raw material prices by an "Import Control Board"; 3) modernization and re-equipment of British industries under a "National Planning Board"; 4) postponement ("not repudiation") of Britain's War debt payments until the Mosley "reconstruction program" shall have been completed. Obviously the Conservative Sunday Express was justified in splashing...
...Bennett proposal was twofold: 1) To put a high tariff wall around the Empire, thus ensuring that the Mother Country would buy more raw materials and foodstuffs from her dominions; 2) To leave untouched the low tariff walls erected by dominions to protect their infant industries even from the Mother Country's competition, though giving her through "Imperial preference" an advantage over countries outside the Empire...