Word: learne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first ships held up was the Black Osprey of the Black Diamond Lines, bound from New York to Rotterdam with a mixed cargo. For five days her owners did not know where the ship was. When he did learn, Black Diamond's President Victor J. Sudman protested sharply to the U. S. State Department. In due course the Black Osprey was permitted to clear with all her cargo for Antwerp and Rotterdam, the British explaining that "it was not fully established that Germany was the destination and the items themselves were proved to be unimportant in quantity." Snorted President...
...Every effort consistent with the news itself is to be made to avoid horror, suspense and undue excitement. . . . For example, news of air-raid alarms should not be broadcast until we actually learn whether or not there has been an air raid...
...Commandments (approached through study of U. S. laws), Dr. Johnson had some 150 pupils and was busy answering questions from interested Catholic educators. Hoping that his school would be a model for U. S. Catholic schools. Dr. Johnson reminded them that St. Paul had exhorted the Ephesians to learn "by doing." that Pope Pius XI had urged the Catholic priesthood to be "healthily modern...
Recently started and successfully maintained is the undergraduate faculty which has been opening up vast opportunities to underprivileged high school students to learn something about college courses. Chairmaned by E. Langdon Burwell '41 and Lawrence Lader '41 the undergraduate family consists of a hundred student volunteers who each tutor a graduate from some high school who because of his financial situation is unable to attend college. Once or twice a week the student meets the volunteer instructor in the latter's college room, shares his notes and books and occasionally attends lectures with...
Among the other Committees is the Foreign Students Committee which has under way its project of a cooperative house to help foreign students learn to know each other and to meet American fellow students. The house will also be started to help provide for good living quarters at reasonable prices...