Word: depending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believed to be proper courses for the equipment of an educated man. An acquaintance with architecture and the other fine arts opens up such a large new field of knowledge that any student may well find it worth while to learn something of the arts upon which we depend so much for our records of the past and our enjoyment of the present. For those who are considering the adoption of architecture as a profession, the undergraduate courses offer the student an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the subject and perhaps thus to decide whether he cares to carry...
...Department of Animal Breeding is concerned with a study of the laws of heredity, upon an accurate knowledge of which must depend the successful improvement of the breeds of useful animals...
...approach the end of our land resources, only several generations separate us from a very acute and precarious situation, which has already developed in other more thickly populated part of the world. To meet this, the basic principles upon which the improvement of useful plants and animals depend, must be fully elucidated, and our cultivated crops must be protected against the hordes of insect pests which would ruin them if left to their own devices...
...call for sober consideration of developments deeply affecting the life of the University. Scholastic problems, the improvement of instruction, the common attitude towards the scholar, the position of the unclassified student, have assumed an importance which cannot be denied. Upon the successful solution of these problems will depend, in great measure, the well-being of the University...
...Hoover now appeals to the American people to save from starvation 3,500,000 innocent children in Europe, born into war and in no way responsible for the distressful conditions which surround their childhood. The lives of these 3,500,000 undernourished children now depend upon America until the next harvest. We can save them or we can let them die. The American conscience will not permit the closing of the door to this great mass of hungry children; it is a service the American people cannot refuse...