Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college in the vague hope that something will turn up to assist them, and with the intention of living on credit until it does. In that case, they frequently spend two or three months besieging the Personnel Offices seeking work which cannot be given them, and will in time drop out and return home, leaving the University and the local tradesmen saddled with a number of bad debts. On the other hand, they may enter a student employment competition on their own initiative and thus occupy a position reserved by the Personnel Department for some other applicant. If the individual...
...this man is a real leader, and these are the men we try to find, he stimulates an interest in the sport. The problem in the past was to understand why many boys reported for our intramural teams only to remain a few days and then drop out. We are now more than ever convinced that the spirit, guidance and teaching through properly se- lected coaches point to the right road of success for all intramural athletics...
Reports received from most of the universities in the United States, as compared with those of last year, indicate a drop in enrollment of 4.5 per cent for full-time students, and of 7 per cent in total enrollment. The figures for this year, however, are slightly higher than the corresponding ones for 1927, so that the level has been substantially maintained, fluctuations disregarded. Furthermore, there is reason to believe that the attendance at Junior colleges has increased as that at the universities has decreased. Regarding the situation broadly, the institutions of higher learning are little affected by the depression...
When the immediate details are considered, however, universities such as Harvard are seen to be somewhat troubled financially. This drop in enrollment, representing a loss of about $1000 per man, would naturally be felt by any institution, and as is to be expected, college budgets are now limited in an unfortunate manner. The chief disadvantage, however, is not the loss of money per se, for the colleges did well with the present amount four years ago, but rather that, like individuals, the colleges find difficulty in living cheaply after having been attuned to an inflated scale...
...Whenever I tired and laid aside my brush I'd drop in on him. There he was, painting away. . . . He was one of the youngest men I have ever known...