Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale? While the favored colleges grumbled over indigestion, lesser schools complained of malnutrition. The Association of American Colleges estimated that smaller colleges could absorb an extra 250,000 students. So far, 41% of all back-to-school G.I.s had packed into 38 schools, largely ignoring 712 other fully accredited colleges. In some cases the G.I. was only guilty of trying for the best-why go to Podunk College, when the Government will send you to Yale? But others had a better reason: they wanted training in trades or professions which small liberal arts colleges were not equipped to teach...
...resident memberships in the Houses has been made by Half and entry. If there is a sudden increase in enrollments, the Union may be opened once again for those living in the Yard, but it is hoped that the House libraries and dining halls will be able to absorb everyone so that the Union may continue to serve the Graduate School...
...entering today will find the University fast returning to something of a normal atmosphere. Every branch is flooded with applications for admission and has been forced to turn down the majority of those seeking to enter. Special veterans problems, such as course credit, housing and finances absorb much of the deans' time. There is "joint instruction" (not co-education...
...Commodity Credit Corp. offered to raise the price to $3.67½, for the 1946 crop. This was satisfactory to Cuba, but Congress so far had not given the CCC authority to pay a subsidy to absorb the increase. The retail price boost was the only solution...
...interest the hullabaloo caused by the proposed merger of the armed services. It seems to me that the obvious solution has been neglected. If the Army is serious (which we of course assume) in its desire for a unified command, the obvious solution is to have the Marine Corps absorb the Army...