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...classroom discussion is at all possible it should turn less upon matters of fact, mere question and answer, and more upon matters of opinion, a method followed for an example in the Economics department. Since so large a proportion of the undergraduate body is affected by the tutorial system, verbal reports to tutors instead of the frequent written reports might loosen a tongue...
...announcement that the Register will not be ready for distribution until after the Christmas holidays, comes as a great disappointment to those who have subscribed to it this year many of them on the verbal understanding that it would be delivered before the Yale game. Naturally enough the Register is of greatest value during the early months of the college year and mere business policy, if nothing else, would seem to dictate its publication as early as possible during that period. But the fact remains that this year, as more than once in the past, it has appeared...
...Allies agreed unanimously to invite her; Britain then addressed to France, Belgium, Italy a proposal that the inquiry or conference be held; these countries replied to Britain accepting the proposal " in principle"; Britain then submitted a draft of the invitation to be addressed to the U. S.; with "slight verbal changes " (by Belgium), Belgium and Italy approved the text of the invitation, but France knocked a lower card out of the house by insisting upon juxtaposing the words "present" and "capacity"; thereby causing the collapse of the whole structure...
...stock market, however, wide differences of opinion were expressed. Some were im pressed with the maneuver chiefly as a drive against the "short interest," which was believed to be large. Others pointed out that 1924 was a Presidential year, that the Party in power might show more than verbal gratitude to anyone who could prevent depression and maintain prosperity at least until after election day. A third school maintained that large interests wished to stir up a good market in order to liquidate securities likely to decline further next year. All agreed, how ever, that, if manipulation was responsible...
...promising new star of the sophisticated theatre. Her marriage with David complicated matters?they loved each other with youthful violence, but, no matter what David did, he never seemed to be able to make any money. Eruptive misunderstandings followed the injection of the Shavian Moreby into their lives?his verbal pyrotechnics made Joan dizzy and David heroically annoyed and led to a triangular drama in which poor David was unwittingly cast for the part of the sacrificial goat. But David escaped from the altar?Joan could not do without him after...