Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the General Education Board set itself two major tasks. One was to foster a more co-operative attitude between colleges and secondary schools. The other was to raise the standards of the colleges. By last year the Board felt that it had started both those balls rolling, could safely leave the colleges to push them on. Under the guidance of its British-born President Trevor Arnett, the Board turned to a new job, to the building of a brand new type of general education for the millions of students who have no use for the classical curriculum...
...purge at Munich and elsewhere, indicated as extremely precarious, is again made secure--for the present. Meanwhile a conciliatory attitude by England should be a potent factor in dispelling the "ring of steel" attitude of mind from the German people which Chancellor Hitler has been at such pains to foster. The war spirit in Germany is entirely too artificial not to respond to intelligent treatment...
...Brooklyn to desperately poor parents, a puny, sickly babe, given small chance to survive. When he was five his father died. Soon his mother took him to Charleston, S. C. to live with her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Byrnes. There young Frank had his cousin Jim for playmate and foster brother. Today Cousin Jim Byrnes is junior U. S. Senator from South Carolina and a great & good friend of President Roosevelt. But in that hard-pressed family of women and children there was small time for play. At 12 Frank went to work as cash boy in a Charleston department store...
...debating whether or not to "take on such a responsibility." But no reader who knew his comic strips expected for an instant that the baby would wind up in an orphanage. Also, since "Anguished Mother" stuck to the neuter gender in referring to "it," all odds pointed to a foster-sister for Skeezix & Corky...
John G. Penrod '37 led the Harvard gunmen by scoring 163 points of a possible 200. Albert D. Foster '36 placed second with 162 points. Philip N. Andress '37 accounted for 161 points for third place, while Spencer D. Howe '37 and Cecil Barnes '36 tied for fourth with 156 points each...