Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached Austria's Christian Socialist President Dr. Wilhelm Miklas, silent at his home all through the days of bloodshed, that the evidence against them was slight. But time was passing. At the end of three hours the policemen turned the clock back, sent out for coffee with whipped cream. Soon up rushed the State's Attorney, waving reprieves like the warden in a melodrama. "Thank God, I am not too late!" he gasped. The smiling police got another...
...more to come, will have the direct effect of enabling a small number of men of exceptional talents to attend Harvard completely free from financial worries. More important than this, they will serve notice to the country that the College is actively and aggressively interested in attracting the cream of preparatory school graduates. Inaugurated with the proper publicity, an experiment as novel to American education as this one cannot fail to force Harvard upon the attention of preparatory schools all over the country and to hold out a valuable prize as a lure to prospective Freshmen...
...Things have now reached the stage," wrote Consul Rollin R. Winslow at Trieste, Italy, "where cream cannot longer be purchased for coffee, when eggs must be used sparingly, when cigarets must be purchased only on rare occasions, when threadbare clothing must suffice, and when any attempt to reciprocate social courtesies unavoidably received at the hands of local officials . . . is remotely out of the question...
Such is one method by which the cream of the crop would be admitted to Harvard. "If we could draw to the College and to our graduate schools several hundred of the most brilliant men throughout the country each year, we should be accomplishing much of importance for the future of the University." Pointing to the fact that this might mean an increase in enrollment, the President is quick to deny that he is at all interested in making the University any larger than it is at present. "It is certainly quality not quantity in which we are interested...
...this policy does not envisage any widespread increase in the number of scholarship students, and if Mr. Conant turns his back on the English example, and endeavors to attract to Harvard, through financial assistance, the intellectual cream of each college generation, he will face a budgetary problem that is ever more acute. The immediate future of the House Plan and the tutorial system must be weighed against the ambition to make Harvard a national university, an educational centre from which no one of talent is barred on financial grounds. Oxford and Cambridge have chosen an expensive educational system; the provincial...