Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among those who have already been accepted are many men who had planned to attend the School in previous years, but have been forced to cancel their applications, because they lacked the necessary funds. A good many who have been in the School for one year and have had to withdraw and work for two or three years to earn enough to continue are now able to take advantage of this extra session with the lowered living costs resulting from its shortened period of time, it was stated...
...Gifford '04, J. I. Straus '93, and George Whitney '07 who, in recommending the plan pointed out that the school facilities for constructive business training must be made available this winter as a substitute for the demoralizing effect o waiting of jobs. It is understood that students who attend the session will have the same classroom instruction under the regular faculty...
...youth a wild-riding cavalryman, Persia's self-made "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi, who seized the Throne in 1925, is now the horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls...
President Hoover has invited a group of educators to attend a conference at the White House in January. Its purpose will be to decide on a satisfactory method for preventing a lowering of the present public school standards, for in the last two years the amount of money allotted to schools has decreased while the number of students has gradually increased. As Mr. Hoover and many persons interested in education have realized, this situation cannot continue to exist without bad results...
...undergraduate years, it is usually accused of snobbery. When Yale and Harvard first contemplated making that decision they were so accused. Such action, however, is not snobbery; it is merely the result of the university's realization that, beyond a certain number, men seeking employment from the institution they attend are a drag upon their associates and themselves...