Word: gained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last three years the number of Government concentrators has increased 30%, being last year 384--the largest increase of any field in College. Like Economics, it is a field whose importance is becoming more and more widespread, but also like Economics it is a subject in which one cannot gain practical experience in College. The recent large increase was perhaps mainly due to the fact that students who were not really interested in the subject concentrated in it in the belief that it would help them in Government or business. As taught here, the field is theoretical...
...year to take a more active administrative part in the actual government of the students; presumably it is hoped that the Council would assume the power of disciplining students in all questions unconnected with scholastic aptitude. In my opinion it would be unwise for the Council to attempt to gain such powers. The restrictions on the private lives of the students at Harvard are kept to the very minimum, and if the University is willing to handle the details of punishing offenders, the Council should rather be grateful than resentful. The idealistic conception of student government as a training...
...votes to 201. Chirped she: "We'll make this the best town by a damsite." Before the 30-day Baker whoopee regime got seriously under way, however, the conservative element in Disney, composed of Grocer Silar's best customers, resorted to an already constituted authority to gain what it had lost in the field. Chief of Police Hale Dunn marched out to a tree, tacked up a warning sign: I AM THE LAW IN DISNEY. NO WOMAN CAN RUN THIS TOWN BY A DAMSITE WHILE I AM IN THE SADDLE...
...country has to be lived in and died in for a long time before evidences of its culture accumulate, gain currency and become distinguished. The arts are among those evidences, and for 150 years U. S. citizens have been asking themselves if and when the arts of the U. S., as such, would add another noble tradition to the world's stock. This week in Paris, at the long, two-story Jeu de Paume Museum in the Tuileries Gardens, some earnest people from Manhattan are putting the finishing touches on the most elaborate demonstration ever made in Europe that...
...Chinese attitude. In adding "Japanese Spirit in Full Bloom" to the display, I remarked in class that it was probably an unkindness to the Japanese cause, because the propaganda efforts in the pamphlet so obviously defeat their own end; nevertheless it seemed most desirable that Americans try to gain some impression of the militarist attitude exemplified in this pamphlet. All these periodicals were clearly marked "Reserved for History 83b. Do not remove...