Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left a New York church to become the Secretary of the Friends of Antioch in America, views the Ohio college through such rose-tinted glasses. Not content with seeing in Antioch a notable experiment in education, useful in certain definite branches of education, the new secretary wants to establish the Antioch idea as "a basis of American educational institutions", broad enough to include both religion and practical life...
Factories. Concurrently with a report that 150,000 were idle in Mos cow and were being kept alive on doles, came the news that the Bol shevik Government intends to permit business men to establish indus trial concerns. The only restrictions placed in a draft of the decree were that concerns employing or intending to employ more than 20 men must seek permission of the local Soviet to start operations. Those concerns, employing more than 200 men must make concessionary agreements with the Republic in which the concern is situate...
...plan proposes to establish an active agency with Mr. Daly devoting his entire time to the placing of students who want employment. It ought to be possible for every ambitious student without funds to work his way through Harvard. No effort should be spared to assist the kind of man who wants an education badly enough to work for it. This is to be the object of Mr. Daly's work...
...sought divisional examinations for Sophomores: still another agitated for more creative work in the tutorial field. Other essays demanded a renovation of English A. compulsory attendance at classes, limitation of admission numbers, and a truce from attacking Harvard. Some dealt with a use for Memorial Hall, a system to establish intimacy between professors and students, a literary academy for Harvard and a school of the drama...
...There is no single capital of South Africa, owing to the fact that, at the time of the Union, British and Dutch jealousy made it imperative to establish two capitals, one at Pretoria, one at Cape Town. In this respect, South Africa is unique...