Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freshman fails at the November hour examinations or at the midyear examinations, to have passed in four courses, with satisfactory grades in at least three of them, he will, failing some good excuse, be placed on probation, and if at the next examination period he has failed to attain the minimum requirements he may possibly have his connection with the College severed...
...What new low level did the franc attain...
...study of history at Harvard with too rosy a conception of it That would be merely to court disillusion for history at Harvard is not systematically taught with any other object that to fill out an outline of events; at least a mastery of the outline is sufficient to attain high distinction in the department, and the greater virtues of the subject an imaginative reconstruction of the past, the reading of whatever moral lessons it has to suggest, the application of it to the civilization of today are generally left to the devices of the student himself. Indeed...
...develop winning teams at whatever cost, but as Mr. Bingham explained his philosophy surprise turned to admiration for it was recognized that here was a man destined to dignify college sports and to assure them a standing in the curriculum which they have been struggling for generations to attain...
...Minister Peret has served in various Ministries since that of Guerin in 1893. He served as President of the Chamber before the election of M. Herriot to that post. In consequence, he knows quite as well as anyone that in the present emergency the Finance Minister of France must attain his ends by cajoling the Deputies as if they were a pack of obstinate schoolboys...