Word: establisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan next month voters will pass on a proposition to re-establish the death penalty, dead a century in that State...
...group of scholars met at Yale two years ago to consider the plan. Within the next two years the work for Southern New England is expected to be completed. A questionnaire has been prepared through which field workers will collect characteristic facts of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, to establish dialectic differences. In addition speech records will be taken...
Universities are created to educate. But few universities can afford to be too particular about their standards of education until they have expanded to profitable size. For this purpose they must establish a reputation and popularity among young people; no better means exists than to have successful, famed football teams for a number of years. Last week University of Notre Dame (founded 1842) which has had pre-eminent football teams for a decade, announced a new standard of scholarship: to enter, high-school students must have stood in the first scholastic two-thirds of their classes; to be graduated, Notre...
...enable the instructor to reduce the number of his tutees without diminishing his income requires a large sum of money. But the objection does not invalidate the suggestion. The University obtained $15,000,000 to establish a physical basis for the tutorial system. It remains now for the authorities to eliminate the inconsistencies...
...seems to me that the most useful and fitting plan of all would be to establish a group of scholarships and fellowships to meet the increase in living expenses which the House Plan has brought about. There are numerous precedents for such action, the Lionel de Jersey Harvard. Victor Emmanuel Chapman, and Bayard Cutting Fellowships in particular. They lack concreteness, perhaps, but there may be some among the alumni to whom a memorial is something more than the mere piling of one brick on top of another in a successful attempt to outdo in uselessness all previous war memorials...