Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sensational of all, was when Ostheimer and Fuhrer spent 36 hours without rest in climbing four peaks from the Columbia Ice-field, one of which, the North Twin, was over 12,000 feet. The party left camp one morning at 1 o'clock and returned after many hours of hardship on the ice, having used flash-lights to guide their steps during the night. It was the first complete ascent to the ice-field from the Athabaska valley...
This situation produced a note of protest to the U. S. Department of State from Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S. Last fortnight Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg replied. He regretted that the order would "cause some hardship," said that "those who obviously cannot hope to receive immigration visas for some time to come" would be "clearly informed of their status" so that they could "make their plans accordingly." He also promised that, if necessary, the six-month time allowance before the order takes effect would be extended. And, finally, he promised to bring the question...
...tests for fitness now employed by the Yale examiners give a reasonably secure basis for selection. About eight men in a hundred drop out of college during Freshman year by reason of poor scholarship. A considerable proportion of these failures is due to financial or other hardship and not to incapacity. In Yale College, the wastage for all causes for the whole period covered by the Alumni Directory is but 12.9 per cent through the year 1917, and but 16.2 per cent with the war period included...
...Holy City cannot seem entirely unrelated to the somewhat sordid suicide of four promising American undergraduates within the space of a few weeks. The only explanation that is sufficiently vague to be true is that of failure to adapt oneself to an inevitable, remorseless environment, an environment of natural hardship and of social horror. The biologist would claim it to be the elimination of the unfit in the struggle for existence, and as such a natural and beneficial part of the law of life. The theologian must interpret it in different terms, no less valid. It is an integral problem...
...problems of immigration has at last received official attention and seems likely of solution. The Stobbs bill now before the House of Representatives aims to avoid in future some of the cases of individual hardship that have been incurred from time to time under the hard and fast rulings necessary to control the rush of foreigners to this country. One of the most recent instances of the sort was the admission of an alien whose permits were satisfactory while his wife, American born, was detained by officials under a technically. The Stobbs proposal purposes to deal with difficult situations...