Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today's leaders of education have dealt thoroughly with the problems of who should be admitted to our universities and what they should be taught, but little attention has been paid the perplexing situation which faces almost every student upon graduation. If educators are interested in the implanting of aim into the student mind and its direction toward some goal, they should also consider how, under present economic conditions, he can best use his training. Although the university's purpose may not be vocational, it is essential that its teaching take interest in the student by including some hint...
Because he was born in an American community, the graduate is as much responsible to it as his thought and action affect it. Upon his job he imposes the ideas he has formulated in college, and if he has an altruistic interest in his country's future, he will try to use his education so that it benefits the place in which he works. For many graduates the process of translating education into practical terms, which makes it useful to society, can be most wisely done in their home community. It is ideal that when ready to enter the business...
When Austria was taken over by Germany three months ago the little nation owed a total of $400,000,000 in foreign debts. No one seriously expected Germany to continue payments on these and last week, when the first interest payments after the anschluss came due, Germany defaulted on three Austrian foreign loans totaling $230,000,000 which were largely held in the U. S., Great Britain, France...
...welfare of the 2,000,000 women factory workers† held the convention's interest. Illinois' Industrial Hygienist Milton Henry Kronenberg reminded his colleagues that women "are less resistant to dust, fumes and gases [than men], more susceptible to poisons, monotony and fatigue. . . . Married women are a particular problem. The stillbirth percentage is greater among factory workers. Infant mortality is higher. Abortions are higher." His recommendation to prevent all this: pre-employment physical examinations, followed by frequent periodic checkups, prohibiting females in employments involving exposure to lead and benzol; proper seating, with back rests; prohibiting women from working...
Bank Credit (loans and investments in 101 cities) dropped to $20,536,000,000, a two-and-a-half year low, continuing a steady ten-month slide. The complete sluggishness of business was demonstrated by its ever-waning interest in commercial loans. In New York City, an apparent reversal of the trend-an almost unparalleled rise of $465,000,000 in bank credit- was actually a confirmation of the condition. The temporary fluctuation was caused by banks (having more & more difficulty in finding investments) buying up huge quantities of maturing Treasury obligations so as to be able to turn them...