Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Girls' Industrial School at Beloit, Kans., is a gloomy looking "corrective" institution whose normal student body is composed of girls under 19 convicted of minor crimes. Last January, when Democrat Walter A. Huxman replaced Republican Alfred Landon as Governor of Kansas, the superintendent of Beloit, Republican Lulu Coyner...
As Mrs. McCarthy and Mrs. Peterson were chatting they came to the subject of furniture. Said Mrs. Peterson: "Now I hope we can buy some new rugs for the school, since we won't have to pay so much for sterilizations." Questioned further, she told her visitor that during...
Harvard, that ancient institution on the bank of the Thames, which Artemus Ward described "as pleasantly situated in the Parke House, School Street, Boston," is the next to be considered. And the staid Harvard lads do not fare too well under female inspection.
Jovial Captain. Ernest Orlando Lawrence has an ideal temperament for a man who, in such a position, must be an educator and organizer as well as a crack physicist. He is jovial and easy-going but knows how to handle men and get things done. His grandfather was an immigrant...
The biggest institution for higher learning in the world has 47,000 students, most of whom pay no tuition. To visit its campuses and buildings, among which is not a single dormitory, takes a day's hard traveling by subway. Its football teams are trounced by such tiny colleges...