Word: impartation
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...Stimson's trumpeting will meet with an indifferent reception in Europe. The League has enacted the farce of her own impotence with that solemn dignity of persistence which only pokerfaced diplomacy can impart. Great powers have blocked every move likely to arouse Japan. After summoning up her right to invoke the assembly, even China, desperate for action as she is, announces that she will originate no proposal for economic boycott. The machinery of the League has offered no acceptable remedy for the situation. Mr. Stimson's proposal, which he repeats at this time, is the last alternative...
Under a nationwide extension of this reciprocity of free tuition, the children of professors throughout the country would be entitled to their undergraduate tuition in any institution of their choosing. Thus at least some of the benefits of education which their parents are dedicating their lives to impart, would be more easily accessible to the children of college professors...
...organized personal supervision. That is attested by the important decision of the Harvard and Princeton players not to apply for recognition as a minor sport for this year at least. The association will, moreover, assure a great degree of uniformity in the practice of the rules and will impart, by its advisory board some measure of national standing...
...deservedly noted for its non-paternalistic attitude towards its students. If the House Plan should prove sympathetic towards this traditional policy its opponents would be reduced to the category of false-alarmists. In borrowing the trappings of Oxford and Cambridge for the House Plan it would seem sensible to impart a few English customs that will readily take root in the Harvard soil. One of these importations, already planted in New Haven and Princeton, is a liberal attitude towards the reception of young ladies in students' rooms...
...were taught to squeeze His legs in breeks as short as these, And boldly show his valiant knees, Be those well-clad or bony, Do you suppose this might impart A milder mood, a change in heart, A love of Literature and Art, To Scarface Al Caponel...