Word: gain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three months, an insurgent strike led by Seaman Joseph Curran tried ineffectually to tie up Atlantic and Gulf ports. Last week the strikers, weary of futile picketing and fighting, voted on peace. Only in four of 14 ports was a majority for carrying on. Chief gain that Seaman Curran could claim in surrender was that "East Coast shipowners have been kept so busy they have not tried to break up the West Coast strike...
...given evidence of being able to profit most fully from regular tutorial instruction should be given weekly individual conferences. Those students who are to be provided with less intensive tutorial work should be assigned to tutors for general advice about their courses and about readings which will help them gain a better understanding of their chosen subject and should be seen less frequently for tutorial conferences, perhaps only half as often as those receiving regular tutorial instruction. It seems to me essential that all upperclassmen concentrating in fields having general examinations and tutors should be assigned to tutors...
...third place, for those students who are to receive only partial tutorial instruction and who will, therefore, be expected to gain an understanding of their subject and to prepare for the general examinations more heavily by course work, it will be necessary to restore the old course requirement of sixteen courses in addition to prescribed English...
...gain an idea of what their pastoral duties will be like, U. S. theological students spend much of their spare time doing welfare work, practising preaching in missions, doing pious chores for ministers. But for men of God there exists no compulsory interneship comparable to that fulfilled by men of medicine. Last week, simultaneously with announcing election of a new dean, the Divinity School (Protestant Episcopal) in Philadelphia announced a new "clinical" course of study which will give its students the longest scholastic year -eleven months-of any in the U. S. To be administered by new Dean Allen Evans...
Harvard is expected to win easily over the Boston Y team to gain its fourth straight triumph. Some good competition should be forthcoming, however, for Boston is also undefeated after two meets...