Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That respected, venerable statesman Minister of Justice Louis Barthou visited, last week, the prison of St. Lazare and there presented one Sister Marie Perpetue with the Order of the Legion of Honor for her 50 years' work among fallen women at the prison...
...special handling of individual cases and to giving special individuals special privileges so as to let them get more out of their studies, is taken to be perhaps the chief educational tendency of the times. It will destroy the "lock step" into which the traditional curriculum has fallen...
...point is well taken, and if the opposition is as strong as certain indications give every reason to believe the Administration owes it to alumni and undergraduates and above all to the fallen dead, to face it with something more tangible than a mysterious silence. Nothing could be more unfortunate than a memorial which does not bind firmly, and in the terms most intelligible to post-war Harvard, the honor and the lesson of the dead with the work and ideals of the living...
...whether a chapel would fulfill these requirements. There is an alternate scheme which would beyond question fulfill them. By endowing a number of international scholarships, named for the dead, Harvard would not only satisfy the requirements of the non-church as well as the churchman; she would honor her fallen in a noble and useful endeavor toward training men in the international point of view, in broad sympathies and understanding, so that the lives of young men might not again be sacrificed on the battlefield...
...prosperity reached a point where bread-&-butter education is decreasingly in demand? The Department of the Interior published a survey of private business and commercial schools. Enrollments had fallen off from 32% to 61% in five years. Classes in bookkeeping, stenography, accounting and salesmanship were particularly diminished. Wireless telegraphy showed the greatest decrease, 67%. . . . Partial explanation: public high schools have opened courses in many a commercial subject...