Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Senator Lodge believes that Italy should have Flume. President Wilson told Italy quite frankly that he believed she should not have Flume; and by far the greater portion of that group of Americans who follow foreign affairs supported President Wilson. Lack of access to the sea is one of the greatest incentives for a nation to wage war; it dominated Russian policy for a century and a half. Flume is the chief and almost the only port in the long expanse of shallow beaches between Trieste and Montenegro. The question is not one of Flume, but of the hinterland...
Material is needed for all field events--the shot-put, hammer-throw, pole-vault, the shot-put, hammer-throw, pole-valut, broad and high jumps. Lack of experience will prove no handicap. Candidates for the shot-put and hammer-throw are particularly desired...
...Because of the high cost of living, there is a disastrous lack of teachers for the schools of the country. Six hundred thousand teachers are needed in the United States to teach the 20,000,000 pupils in our schools, and 100,000 new positions are open every year; yet the teacher-training institutions of the country do not turn out more than 25,000 graduates to fill them...
...work, and half of them are not over 25 years of age. Yet without question the teacher is the most important factor in education. Nothing else can count so much. No money the country can spend and no perfection of school organization or administration can compensate for the lack of trained teachers...
...problems will be studied both in the schools and in the laboratory, and members of the Faculty will undertake surveys of schools and school systems. Work of this character has been conducted at Harvard since 1891, but has not developed as rapidly as at some other universities because of lack of means. Members of the present staff of the Division of Education have contributed in various ways, however, to the solution of school problems throughout the country...