Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Article 11 of the law new regulations provides for the admission of all candidates "whose examinations and school records in the judgement of the Committee on Admission, show them to be students of high academic distinction and of good moral character." This standard of judgement has been substituted for the...
The freedom to pick over and weekout candidates for college entrance to advantage, but it can be easily abused. In a liberty of choice guaranteed by such a nebulous phrase as "high academic distinction and good moral character" lies the danger that it may be used to the benefit of...
But another surprise awaited me in Tun-huang. In the course of my travels through Chinese Turkestan. I had heard reports about a great find of manuscripts which had been made a few years earlier in one of the caves. When I was at Noumchi, the provincial capital, I had...
The gift, which provides for advanced study for two years, will be known as the Harvard Fellowship. It will be open to all men in the University of Buenos Aires; for that institution, unlike American colleges, has only graduate schools of professional character.
In many instances the missionaries resorted to a compromise; they declared the most beloved native gods as nothing but incarnations of certain accepted members of the Indian Buddhist pantheon. This method was most successfully carried through in Japan where the first Buddhist missionaries arrived in the sixth century A. D...