Word: attaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...higher standard of moral, educational and material conditions. Its duty is to coordinate the work of the different national student bodies in relation to international intercourse; to foster their cooperation and create through this cooperation a spirit of understanding, good will and mutual assistance. Consequently, the practical work to attain this higher moral, educational and material standard, is done chiefly by the National Student Unions. I shall not go into the details or outline the different topics on which the individual National Unions are working. The problems and difficulties of student life are different in each country...
...operatives receiving from $8 to $12 for a 48-hour week. They are employed on either day or night shifts. From early childhood these children have little to anticipate except drudgery and hardship. They are undernourished and underschooled, and must contribute to the family income as soon as they attain working age. Their years of adolescence are spent tending machines...
...biography of Edward VII (by request of George V) and of a fiercely criticized biography of Queen Victoria; at London. It was at the suggestion of the great Dr. Jowett of Balliol College, Oxford, that he altered his original name "Solomon Lazarus" to "Sidney Lee" (in order to attain literary eminence more easily...
...lesson that in the purse strings lies power, and the Student Council may well profit by it. Decrees and recommendations are the symbols of authority, but in the purse itself is its reality. Backed by the student exchequer the authority of the Student Council ought more nearly to attain the weight which it deserves...
...inter-connected whole. A change in one part will induce changes in other parts, and no great reform can be effected until all parts are taken into account. The preparation which their students receive in secondary schools sets limits to what the colleges can reasonably hope to attain, while the colleges in turn profoundly influence the schools, by setting standards, defining the curriculum, and training teachers. Less attention has been paid to the far-reaching effects of primary and intermediate education. President Angell refers to the fact that the American boy, as compared with his British and Continental cousin, somewhere...