Word: affording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held responsible by the world at large. For Liberia was founded over a century ago as a colony for freed Negro slaves from the U. S., has a Government with a President, a Senate, a House of Representatives and all other U. S. fixings. U. S. honor cannot afford to let the British from Sierra Leone or the French from the Ivory Coast step in and clean...
Robert's tuition and board fee of $450 per year is a sum which only fairly rich Turks can afford. Hence the college draws its Turkish clientele largely from the prosperous middleclass, which wants its sons trained for business or engineering. The Turkish upper crust may send its daughters to Istanbul Woman's College for culture but in general it sends its sons to Istanbul's ancient native university, Galata Serai. Bulgarians, on the other hand, who have drawn a Premier, two front-rank diplomats and many another leader from the college's alumni, regard Robert...
...fault lies chiefly with the system, not with the men. A better selection, on the grounds of interest and knowledge should be made, and greater incentive in the way of financial reimbursement offered. In matters pertaining so directly to the academic fate of undergraduates the University can ill afford to economize...
...equal materials can be found in the mass of secondary schools which must struggle with average teachers and large classes, or for that matter in the select preparatory schools which have become more interested in "creativeness" than discipline. As long as the schools remained traditional, the College could better afford, as in Great Britain, to turn its students loose, assured that they had a thorough grounding in studies of intrinsic difficulty. But with the schools gone Dewey, Harvard is forced to assume responsibility that its A.B. shall not stamp uncultivated intellects...
...case of Japan and Germany. It would turn into a squabble of Italy against the entire League and probably force Italy to withdraw from the League. With the Danubian conference in the offing and the question of Austria's independence pressing hard behind. Britain and France could not afford to lose Italy from the League. Italy. Capt. Eden and Minister Laval chorused, must accept arbitration. Baron Aloisi got up from the table to telephone his boss in Rome...