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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparing the stand made by Harvard with that of other teaching schools, it is interesting to note," Smith pointed out, "that a survey made of 63 institutions in the United States giving some kind of teaching training, found that only 55 percent of the graduates of these colleges had secured jobs up to late this fall. Of these institutions, those which were denominational could find work for only 32 percent of their men, while non-sectarian Normal Schools were able to achieve 63 percent success. We have reports from 19 graduate educational schools indicating that 27 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SURPLUS OF JOBS OPEN TO TEACHERS UPON GRADUATION | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

Seen in such a light, the modest note of success, assumes more significance than would be implicit in a simple justification. "The trends in the College," he remarks, "have been toward a less vocational objective, a recognition of the principle of self education, and a stimulation of more vivid intellectual interests... All the more notable changes that have been made...have been designed to promote the four trends, and especially the last... They are merely a means to an end, and others might have been quite as effective; but these are the ones we have tried, and it would seem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

...thing which is more sacred than anything else -the Signature of France. I personally refuse to dishonor it. ... We must avoid the isolation which surely would follow default." But the possibility of default loomed larger and larger. Premier Herriot, ignoring the Stimson "No" to Britain's first note, prepared a note nearly identical in import, confidently submitted it to the committees on Finance and Foreign Affairs. While they grappled the problems Premier Herriot returned to the Chamber floor in time to hear Louis Marin, aged Nationalist leader, flaying any proposal to make payment. Loud applause greeted M. Marin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lightning Diplomacy | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...committees reported on the Herriot note, flatly rejected it, went to work on resolutions of their own calling for outright postponement, come what might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lightning Diplomacy | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

Meanwhile in London the British Government, majority stockholder of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., whose concession the Shah has canceled (TiME, Dec. 12), declared last week that Persia's note on this subject was "so offensive'' that it could not be published. The note charged, according to Persians in the know, that for more than 30 years Britons have exploited Persian Oil lands "in a manner grossly unfair to Persia." Though the original D'Arcy concession (now Anglo-Persian's) was signed in 1901, no oil royalties were paid to Persia until 1914 when only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIA: Tiny Tiger | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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