Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...additional courses, focuses attention on the underlying reason for the incidental source of income. The fee comes as a natural consequence in the case of a student desiring more courses than are ordinarily allowed under present tuition rates; on the other hand upon the conscientious man who prefers to enlist his efforts in bearing the brunt of concentration during his early college career, the fee falls with undue severity. No well defined arguments can be conceived to support a scheme which makes the price of the same education more expensive for one student than for another...
Army Air School. The Army's advanced flying school at Kelly Field (San Antonio, Tex.) heretofore has required only one year's enlistment. Thereafter graduates could choose between two years' additional service in the Air Corps or go into commercial flying. Private flying schools have complained, on the one hand, that the Army was thus hurting their business. On the other hand, the Army has complained that it is getting too few graduates from Kelly Field. Hence: new War Department regulations which require that flying students must enlist for three years-one at school, two in the Air Corps...
Father of the idea is Frederick N. Sard, executive director of the Schubert Centennial (1928) and the Beethoven Centennial (1927). Touring Europe to enlist help. Organizer Sard broke the news last week in Vienna. He announced as a prominent cooperator Count di San Martino. president of the Augusteo Orchestra and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, who will head the European delegations. Another noble cooperator, the Marquis Tokugawa of Japan, will chairman a Far Eastern Committee. Music Patrons Otto Hermann Kahn and George Eastman will serve on the U. S. board. In conjunction with the festival a technical exposition...
Fifty women, representing 17 states, met in Chicago, formed the Woman's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Mrs. Sabin, leading spirit, was chosen chairman. The purpose: to enlist five million women to fight Prohibition, to favor Temperance...
Evidently the 400 had some hope that this line of reasoning would enlist Public Opinion against the "talkies" and restore, by subtle insistence, the jobs of 35,000 workless men. For one other thing which the convention did before adjourning was to raise the salary of President "Joe" Weber, best business brain of their once-potent union, from $15,000 per annum...