Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends remember him as a bookworm of athletic prowess at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. His father, who is considered the foremost Anglo-Catholic of the day, is said to regard his son's equal devotion to that faith with satisfaction...
...education is not simply a matter of attending classes and getting satisfactory grades. The purpose of the college should be to educate cultured gentlemen who shall be prepared in all the qualities of mind and character and personality to assume positions of active, helpful leadership in the world. Of equal importance with the formal training afforded by the academic system is the informal training which comes through the social life of the college and the daily contacts of students one with another outside of the classroom. The committee feels very strongly that one of the major defects of Harvard education...
...home and let his wife and 15-year-old daughter read it. TIME'S English is superb, unequaled, to the point; its humor wholesome, and its editors are not color blind - they don't see red. If every European country published one or two magazines to equal TIME, conditions throughout the world would improve and much more would be accomplished in bringing about peace, understanding and good will among nations than all the old world diplomats have done so far. . . . WM. J. BEEKER Chicago...
...very remarkable fact that at the present moment the amount that the United States is receiving from Europe is approximately equal to the whole amount of reparations which Germany is paying. But distribution of the receipts from Germany and payment to the United States are entirely different. The bulk of the receipts from Germany go to France, who at present is making no payments on account of her debts, and the bulk of the payments to the United States is being made by Great Britain largely out of her own resources...
...addition to elections and reports the clubs voted the incorporation of the Gold Coast Orchestra, which will put this unit on an equal basis with the Banjo, Mandolin and Vocal Clubs, and make its leader automatically a member of the Instrumental Clubs Committee...