Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curricula. Arguments, reports, opinions, resolutions, boiled down to this program for school curricula, which a committee was instructed to study further: Articulate the high school curriculum more closely with the elementary school; do not let the colleges, to which only a small percentage of students go, dominate the courses given...
Last year the trustees of Johns Hopkins University were invited to consider an idea that was most unusual for this day and age of higher education. A vigorous speaker with a long lean jaw and rugged physique, a vigorous, practical man, among whose favorite expressions is "Let's get down to brass tacks," was speaking at the trustees' annual meeting and saying: "The instruction in the first two college years in the United States has probably always been in essence what is now known as secondary rather than advanced instruction. On that account it has no proper place...
When he was 15, his father, realizing his nascent business ability, let him come into the brickyard as bookkeeper. The boy reorganized the yard, developed year-round work instead of seasonal...
...National Cash Register Co. For his $5,000 yearly salary he was to give to the company all inventions he developed during that year and during the year thereafter. At the end of the contract year he wanted his agreement renewed. An N. C. R. employing official refused but let him continue on the payroll under an assignment of invention rights annexed to, but not executed with, the 1909 agreement. A cash consideration was not made explicit. This arrangement endured until 1917, when the Remington Arms Co. "lured" Mr. Fuller away by an offer of more salary and a longheaded...
...daughter. His wife died in 1921. Last week his daughter died. According to the terms of his will the trust will now be administered by trustees named by the Presidents of the Universities of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. The trustees are to sell the Star within two years-to let his old paper go into a new orbit. Both before and after the sale the income of the trust will be used to furnish Kansas City with works and reproductions of works of the fine arts, such as paintings, engravings, sculpture, tapestries, rare books...