Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main discrimination in higher education, according to Truman's Commission, is economic. Too many qualified students cannot pay their own way. The Commission asked for federal scholarships and fellowships, as well as generous grants to the states to enable colleges to roll back tuition charges. It appears, however, that elementary and secondary schools are going to be served first by the present Congress. Colleges will have to limp along, and the sizzling issues of aid to private schools and southern segregated education will doubtless be finessed at the present too. But if the Administration really wants to toss...
Size and shallow reserves are the freshmen's main handicaps this year, Harper noted. "They're a good bunch of kids," Harper went on. "They can out-manuever and outfinesse any team their size but they just can't overpower a bigger one like Holy Cross. But they have lots of hustle and that's what I like to see most in a team...
...main reason for the spiriting away and destruction of bluebooks is time. It is a long and tiring process for the grader or instructor to answer the often foolish gripes of a mass of unsatisfied undergraduates. But examining and answering these complaints and questions should be just as much a part of education as marking the exams, perhaps even more so. One chief aspect of effective learning is full knowledge of results; the Social Relations people have worked up some ingenious little experiments proving this...
Habsburg Horrors. Mayerling, in Author Lonyay's account, was merely the last act in a psychopathic melodrama peopled, in its main roles, by deeply inbred Central European royalty. Rudolph's mother's cousin and his dearest friend was the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, who drowned himself. Another dear cousin was an Archduke Otto who once scandalized a fashionable restaurant by turning up dressed only in a sword and the necklace of the Order of the Golden Fleece...
...main purpose, however, is to protest against the entire tone of the editorial, which your writer could have corrected by asking a few questions at the HAA. Mr. Bingham and his staff are fully aware of the trouble, which has been brewing for some time and poses a knotty problem, and an informal study (including a poll of former Harvard athletes) was begun last year to seek a solution. Mr. Bingham alerted both athletic committees for future action some time...