Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freshman receiving under 75 in his College Board examinations is required to take English A-1. There have been two general criticisms of the course, found in the questionnaires. In the first place, the student has been given no credit towards his college degree, and has been unable to drop the course until mid-years, and then only if he receives an A. This means that those taking under 75 on the College Boards are forced to take five courses; and unfortunately the majority of men forced to take English A are those least capable of carrying one more course...
Lord Chatham could not possibly have had the Harvard dining halls in mind when in one of his letters, he let drop this pearl of wisdom. Yet had be written in just after some Beef a la Dutch had been dropped down his lordly neck without so much as an "I beg your pardon," or a request for another noggin of milk had been answered by a noncommittal noise in the throat, his remark could not have been more...
Confronted with this fact, silver speculators suddenly realized another: in less than a year the U. S. had bought some 400,000,000 oz.-a drop in the bucket compared to 12,000,000,000 oz. which are supposed to exist, but more than twice the world's recent (1931-34) annual output. For practical purposes the U. S. had already cornered most of the floating supply. Eager to profit from the corner, speculators helped the U. S. boost the world price to the U. S. price, 71?. Last week when it reached that level, Franklin Roosevelt raised...
...German refugee in Manhattan, developed a machine which measures the elasticity of the crystalline lens of the eye. According to the elasticity of a person's lens, Dr. Bernstein can tell whether that person will live (barring infections, disease and accidents) until ripe old age, or will drop dead from heart failure or apoplexy around...
Hitting hard at the plan to drop University financial support of the minor sports is 1936, the petition backed by four Freshmen makes an excellent statement of the case for their retection. Although this is a perfectly permissible stand to adopt from the abstract merit of the sports in themselves, the seven dollar levy which they propose as the means of financing them is obviously impracticable, since it is in effect an increase in tuition which would work hardship on many and would be unfair to an equal number. The issue then comes down to the question of whether...