Word: giving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would seem that you could well afford to give plenty of space to writing up the rise in the wrestling game of this most worthy young man with whom I am proud to be acquainted. I am only one of a great many who would consider him to be one of the cleanest-cut athletes and also most affable gentlemen who ever entered the sporting world in any of its branches. "Doc" HEWETT...
...Navy and its needs commanded both decks of Congress last week. While the House was 'Considering the present requirements of the Navy Department in a $352,000,000 appropriation bill, the Senate wrestled with itself as to whether to give this branch of national defense 15 swift new cruisers and, if so, when...
...Chester H. Gray, chief lobbyist of the American Farm Bureau Federation, called for general upward revisions averaging 100% higher than present rates on agricultural commodities. The argument, in effect, was: "We want these rates?because we want them." Few if any witnesses paused long enough on the stand to give reasons, to detail the difficulties of foreign competition, comparative costs of production. The fanner's attitude was that he was entitled to these increases by virtue of his vote for Herbert Hoover and that technical explanations were nonessential...
...admission requirement permitting the credit of four years French or German comes in answer to a long-felt need of preparatory schools. In their attempt to give men the thorough survey of modern languages which Harvard expects, schools have been much handicapped by a limitation at the point where a language is just beginning to interest the student. The new regulation should stimulate more study of French and German In school, and consequently lead to a lightening of the burdens of Harvard's language requirements in college...
...final year of preparatory school changed instead to a science or a history which would enable him to gain an extra point. With the recent change in regulations the student is not deprived of the continuity of his study of French or German, and high schools are encouraged to give more thorough courses in these languages. Four years of Greek and Latin have always been acceptable for entrance; the change puts the important modern languages on equal basis with the classics...