Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth College, having experimented for twelve years with the selective process of admissions, has now decided to extend, it as the sole basis for choosing applicants. Prospective freshmen will be considered on individual standards, entrance unit requirements are to be abolished, and the approved school will become a vestigial organ in Hanover. The decision comes as the result of a feeling that the present qualifications are both impersonal and meaningless, and is intended to exert a humanizing influence upon the somewhat Prussian character of admission brochures...
...Adopted a resolution authorizing the Banking & Currency Committee to extend its investigation to private and investment bankers...
...skiing team's last race of the season was held on Sunday afternoon over the Mount Washington ski trail when Washburn won the slalom event of the Nansen Ski Club meet, in one minute, 7 2-5 seconds. This victory to a considerable extend atoned for the unsuccessful season hitherto...
...Sirs: EXTEND APPRECIATION FOR PROVIDING A SPLENDID PROGRAM. PLEASE ADVISE YOUR RETURN...
Jock Whitney's grandfather was William Collins Whitney, a New England lawyer who amassed a fortune in street railways, became Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland, built up a string of race horses to extend his Wall Street rivalry with James R. Keene...