Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant's plan for extra-curricular study of United States history will be inaugurated next month, it was announced yesterday. The program of study will be available to college students and the general public, and prizes will be awarded on the basis of competitive examinations...
Announcement of President Conant's so called extra-curricular program for study of United States history carries with it more significance than first meets the eye. With one of its aims being to destroy the belief that, in order to acquire a broad education, one must attend a college or university, the plan is indeed a decisive step. Aside from this purpose, the plan is intended to provide a ground of common knowledge on which all who participate will be able to meet and discuss the subject intelligently. Advancing on its first five year plan, the experiment will have every...
...features make it impossible for the C.I.O. to climb the Canadian grades in the same gear which it used in Detroit. The hill across the border is less steep, for General Motors Ltd. largely gave way before the strike commenced. The forty-hour week, extra pay for overtime, grievance committees, and seniority rights are conceded by the company, which opposes most stiffly the question of union recognition. Negotiations on this issue await only the withdrawal from the employee delegation of an agent of the Detroit United Autoniobile Workers. It is the extraordinarily aggressive tactics of the C.I.O. agitators swarming...
Wearing a pink negligee to advantage, the backstroke artist claimed that all training should be left to the individual. "Personally I train hard for two weeks and then take a break." She bemoaned a hangover during the interview, hastened to add that extra rehearsals after her show, not any connection with the miscellaneous cocktail and whiskey glasses around the room, caused her present discomfort...
...point out the fact that Walsh's course on Labor Problems has grown in enrollment from 44 to 127, and that last year's students in Sweezy's half-year course in Economic Theory approved the course so much that they voted to continue for another term with no extra credit...