Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duration. The 64 Rhodesmen al ready at Oxford on the 1937 and 1938 scholarships were sent home. Dr. Ayde lotte said he would try to get his Rhodes-men scholarships or teaching jobs in the U. S., that at war's end their Rhodes scholarships would still be good...
...Saddest educator was white-haired Dr. Stephen Duggan, director of the Institute of International Education, founded in 1919 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to promote world good will by international exchange of university students. Dr. Duggan expected the war to play hob with the education of 8,000 U. S. students abroad, 7,500 foreign students in the U. S. Sadly he announced that his Institute had had to cancel the fellowships of 300 U. S. scholars due to go to Europe this fall. As he prepared to send 100 others to Canada, South America...
...numerous: half of all U. S. undergraduates flunk out of college. General College believes that, if this large group cannot become competent doctors, lawyers or engineers, at least they must be made competent citizens. After seven years the college is still seeking a formula for turning out good citizens,* but last week it reported progress: it had determined by a prodigious piece of research what a college graduate and good citizen needs to know...
...complete failure, Dr. MacLean found some of his findings "shocking." Said he: "It is appalling to discover that there are few, if any, observable differences, in other respects than earning power alone, between the graduates and non-graduates and between those who in college were known as 'good' students . . . and those who were known as 'poor' students. . . . They are culturally much alike: they listen to the same radio programs, read the same magazines, go to the same movies, feel much the same about their jobs and their families and their health, carry on the same...
...most wanted: 1) a happy married life, 2) financial success, 3) security for old age, 4) a comfortable standard of living, 5) making a good home. Women: 1) a happy married life, 2) a comfortable standard of living, 3) making a good home, 4) children they could be proud of, 5) travel and adventure...