Word: inducting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shiny new desk. He sat down at the desk. Officials swarmed in to pump his hand, felicitate him, lead him out of the office through rooms filled with craning clerks, staring stenographers. Thus did Dean John Thomas Madden of the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts & Finance, induct himself as the third President of Alexander Hamilton Institute (correspondence business school...
...with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve new Knights of the Grand Cross of the Bath...
...effect of these developments was virtually to quash the possibility that a Spanish or Brazilian veto might again cause trouble when the League Assembly meets to induct Germany next September...
...general knowledge during some definite period of the college years that precede the intensive specialization of graduate study and professional training. Such an organization of subject matter could be made possible only by the courageous willingness of educators to be tentatively dogmatic in saying what subject matter will best induct the student into an understanding of his contemporary world, of the forces that have gone into its making from the past, and of the living forces that are most likely to determine its future...
...subjects and departments that are today the basis of instruction, unless each subject were to be taught by a polymath like Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Adam Smith, or Thomas Henry Buckle. It may be there-fore, that we shall find that the only way we can manage to induct students into a general understanding of their civilization will be to teach during these two "general" years in terms of situations rather than subjects...