Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third Race. Again five big sets of sails grouped; spread along the course, now off Oyster Bay. Weetamoe, handled by Skipper Nichols, again first crossed the finish line. Whirlwind, running close behind, split her mainsail, forced Skipper Langdon Thorne to allow the Enterprise to slip past into second place at the very end of the race. Third: Whirlwind. Fourth: Resolute. Fifth: Vanitie...
...expected that Batchelder and Bassett who have been on the injured list will be back in the game today. It is still a question, however, whether Bassett's injured ankle will allow him to take his accustomed place in right field. Should he not play either Lupien or Huxtable will take his place and the batting order, consequently, will remain similar to that used in the last few games...
...entrant's ability. But as Dr. Kerns has pointed out previously, in spite of this there has been no increase in the use of the better New plan since its inception several years ago. And the New Plan itself, with all of the freedom it brings, does not allow sufficient latitude in its range of subjects. It still requires cramming in the final year in preparatory school in certain subjects which would not normally be considered at that time. And yet, in view of the undeniable evidence against these two types of tests, they are still taken as the main...
...Plan examination could be revised to allow more latitude in the entrant's background and the record of his other studies as shown by the preparatory school along with aptitude tests are sufficient means of judging his other abilities. Then secondary education could be an end rather than a highly inefficient means. To the college there remains the problem of increasing the standard of the instruction in Freshmen courses and adapting its requirements to encourage applicants who have been educated rather than crammed. The crux of the matter is the entrance examination, and their existence is entirely dependent upon...
...Moors from Spain and devout Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews bag without baggage (1492), Sephardic Jewry declined. Some of the Spanish Jews migrated to the Netherlands. Spinoza was a Sephardic Jew. A Lisbon-born Sephardi who lived in Amsterdam was Manasseh ben Israel, who persuaded Cromwell to allow the Jews to return to England (they were expelled in 1290). That return allowed Benjamin Disraeli, a Sephardi, to become Prime Minister of England and Sir Philip Sassoon, also a Sephardi, to become the rich crony of the present Prince of Wales. (England's potent Isaacs, Samuel and Rothschild families...