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...take the tests, only about 900 are finally admitted every year. A large percentage of these are taken in without any reference to their extra-curricular activities but simply on the basis of their marks in school and on the College Boards. In the border cases however, the general all-round abilities of the boy is taken into consideration...
John Studebaker, key man in this key job, is lean, spectacled, a wiry bundle of energy. Iowa-born, a star all-round high-school and college athlete who worked his way through Leander Clark College as a union bricklayer, he was national director of the Junior Red Cross in World War I. As an educator, he distinguished himself chiefly by organizing public forums where adults might discuss problems of democracy, first as Superintendent of Schools in Des Moines, since 1934 as U. S. Commissioner...
...there is something else that we can do, something that is not only the sensible, but the only way to insure our own security. That way is to return to a policy of genuine neutrality, and wage an impartial diplomatic campaign to stop the war, and make a general, all-round settlement...
Harvard Seniors who want to see where they stand in all-round scholastic achievement in relation to their classmates and to seniors at other colleges will have a chance to do so when the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching offers comprehensive examinations here from Friday to Tuesday, March...
...Republic, personally guaranteed the contract; and in a letter to President James N. Rosenberg of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association he maintained that the immigrants would "stimulate the progress of our country," suggested an agricultural bank to help the refugees market their crops, and expressed his all-round interest in cooperating with the "humanitarian plans of President Roosevelt." Last week the project was made official by the Dominican Senate and Chamber...