Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preliminary reports from New England institutions do not confirm the optimistic dispatch from Chicago that "a sharply rising tide of students flooded the colleges and universities, during September." Enrolments hereabout are virtually what they were in 1933. Some colleges have had slight increases, others small losses. Nowhere is there visible the average gain of 10 per cent reported in the West...
...Crimson has just received a last minute dispatch from Joliet Penitentiary, Illinois, that exclusive institution of higher education that my justly b e said to have more stringent admission requirements than Harvard College. Of course this fact is in some measure obviated by the equally obvious truth that the tests of entrance are to a greater degree manual than intellectual, and true brilliance of mind is at time a hindrance to entry within the sacred precincts and (or) an aid to departure therefrom...
...recent dispatch from Rome Premier Mussolini announced that when the new "school of politics" opens on October 29, young Fascists who labor for a living will have the same opportunity as other young men to become party and government leaders. But we may well ask, not ironically of course, just what opportunity does exist for men to become leaders of that great commonwealth...
...justice to his readers, his employers and his own conscience, Mr. Mapel had a task which few newspaper editors would have coveted. He started with a straight Associated Press dispatch from Washington leading the du Ponts to the witness stand. The evening edition that day carried a story written by one of its own men. It was studiously colorless, except for identifying the du Ponts as makers of "the high explosives that to a great extent enabled the Allied armies to win that great conflict...
Your splendid story about the Post-Dispatch in your Aug. 13 issue will be gratefully received by many St. Louisans who will be proud to see that paper get a measure of the national recognition to which it is entitled...