Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belongs to a school most of whom have gone to their home beyond the Jordan. These poor souls could hide much misery beneath an aching heart. Suffering under a double handicap, color and lack of education, they were too tired to give much thought to advancement and constitutional rights. May they rest in peace...
...write in advance a check for four years college education, stating I could select the institution. I have since often thought, in declining, I was foolish. Perhaps I was wise-I might have chosen U. of Penn. Thanks to TIME I have endeavored to make up for this lack of college education by assiduously reading your educational weekly since its birth. Similar to "Philosopher'' (not Funnyman) Rogers, about all I know is what I read in TIME and the papers. A telephonic check-up this morning on Georgia Tech., Oglethorpe University and Agnes Scott College reveals that these...
...Maynard Hutchins. "Since President Eliot gave the country the elective system, not one single useable idea has emanated from New England," he said. And added, "Now either New England must regain its former leadership in the American educational field, or it must become an excrescence." Besides displaying a complete lack of understanding of the institutions originated in the administration of President Lowell, the visitor from the West appeared worried about the fact that Harvard's former prestige as one of the country's foremost educational leaders was threatened since many of her institutions were unique or unable to be used...
...assigned to direct section meetings or conduct laboratories, and the result in most cases is disastrous for the student. It is a necessity that a man be able to teach well and to conduct classes efficiently. Many of these instructors, because of their unfamiliarity with Harvard methods or pure lack of native ability, fail miserably in this most important part of college education. The solution lies in selecting men who can devote full time to their work, giving them a fair salary and opportunity for advancement. An instructor who knows he is only teaching temporarily with a mediocre salary naturally...
...adverse balance of trade which is claimed as the root of her financial troubles. Now, no one can deny that Germany, so far as her export situation is concerned, is really in a bad way; but this is the ostensible reason, loud-pedalled mainly for foreign consumption, for her lack of the yellow metal, and not to be taken without several large grains of salt. Behind her poverty may be discerned foreign balances convertible into gold nestling coyly in vaults in New York and elsewhere, though, it must be confessed hardly collecting tarnish there. In support of this view...