Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time the Board has been conscious of one of the chief difficulties which colleges encounter in admitting students. This is the inability to judge the value of certificates which admit students to college without examination, when those certificates are issued by small and remote schools whose marking systems and standards are unknown. For this reason colleges frequently admit men in no way qualified for advanced work, with the natural result of retarding the whole educational process...
While the Fawcetts frankly admit that Whiz Bang was the foundation of their prosperous publishing business, they deplore the fact that they seldom are publicly identified with the respectable magazines of their group, such as The Amateur Golfer & Sportsman, Screen Play, Modern Mechanics & Inventions. Few months ago they acquired Screen Book, disposed of by the Mackinnon-Fly Publications. They cut its price from 25? to 10?, boosted its circulation from 100,000 to 300,000. Next year they will offer Mechanical Package Magazine, each copy of which will be delivered in a box containing also the parts of some mechanical...
...much for him; in 1923 he dropped everything else to scratch with both hands. Of a proper historian he says: "He must reconstruct the past, set old breezes stirring once again, and-most elusive miracle of all-bring the dead back to life." After reading Wellington you will admit that Guedalla knows his business, has done his duty. Almost painfully witty in conversation, in writing he-is refreshingly so. Other books: The Second Empire, Masters & Men, Fathers of the Revolution, Palmerston, Bonnet & Shawl...
...biography is extraordinarily well rounded and refreshing, refurbishing every facet of a well dusted personality. Where others worship, Fay sits in admiration. Where some debunk, he is content to admit the frailty of man. "This man, who is not conspicuous because he possessed a just sense of proportion, threw in his lot with that of his country. His glory is the patrimony of civilization. Others are born eloquent; he was born legendary...
Even those who cannot suppress a smile at these methods admit that the end justifies the means. It is admirable for Harvard to contribute money to tide ever some of the fourteen hundred families in Cambridge who are without means of support. But it should not stop with the assumption that money is the only contribution it can make. It should have enough respect for its own mental abilities to take part in a program for permanent economic betterment. What money it does give should be spent as the Cambridge Unemployment Relief so wisely suggested as last night's dinner...