Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Wiley Lin Hurie was glum. His College of the Ozarks at Clarksville, Ark., needed-money, badly. The men's dormitory must be completed . . . the men were sleeping in wooden shacks they had built themelves . . . poor sons of poor fathers mountaineers, pure-bred Anglo-Saxon stock, much inbred, but unalloyed the girl students too, stout hearted. . . scrimp and save and slave for the $250 tuition and living expenses. . . cheapest charge for a bachelor's degree in Arkansas. The dormitory must be completed; the walls are up the boys laid the foundation and did all the common labor...
...undergraduate ability. That trust is not without foundation; this particular demonstration of it, nevertheless, appears at the present time likely to fallacy. If ever there were a time when the student should have the benefit of his tutor's advice it is during this coming period. Tutorial conferences need not entail tutorial reading in these three weeks--course reading will be sufficiently large to occupy the student; tutorial conferences do, however, offer opportunities wherein the student may approach his tutor for advice on his own attack on these periods. Obviously if the tutor directs in wholesale fashion the undergraduate...
...close to his heart the rapport of Britain and America. He approaches the subject, however, from a new angle--not with the old words concerning common heritage and future, and the friendship of the Anglo-Saxo, race-facts, which if they be true at all are too true to need repeating--but with a dire prediction of the consequences should America engage in a war with England. That it would be a large, expensive, and spectacular war goes without saying; Mr. Tomlinson, however, predicts a complete world breakdown as an inevitable result, a breakdown which would leave the United States...
...suggestion came as an answer to the need often expressed by former students for a short course which would acquaint them with the latest developments in business and give them opportunity for the discussion of current problems...
...many candidates [for teaching positions] that there is danger of losing much of the ground gained during and since the War in making salaries more nearly match the work done," warned Dean Arthur Herbert Wilde of Boston University's school of education last week. "Teachers now in service need to advise very carefully all their younger friends who are looking toward teaching. Unless they have strong purpose and scholarship and attractive personality, these young people should be turned away from the teaching profession." Every teacher, man or woman, must come to regard teaching as a permanent occupation...