Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report recommends that the plan be made sufficiently elastic to give every encouragement to those students who decide to try for distinction late in their college careers. It proposes, moreover, that all Seniors who obtain a grade of B or better at the Mid-year examinations be excused from the requirements in that course for the second half-year. In such cases, it is suggested that the tutor be given complete discretion to require such a Senior to attend classes or nor depending upon his own greatest need...
...other arriving dignitary was Wallace Rider Farrington, Governor of Hawaii, laden with a political purpose. According to almost incredible despatches it was nothing less than to obtain the aid of the Administration for the entry of 20,000 Hawaiian-born Japanese into this country. He did not linger in California...
...expect to obtain ?12,500,000 annually from France; we have a firm undertaking from Italy of ?4,000,000 annually, and what may be collected from the minor powers is estimated at, say, ?2,000,000. If Germany pays three-quarters of the reparations under the Dawes scheme, which seems a perfectly prudent and reasonable basis on which to found ourselves, that will...
...past, dormitory accommodations for sophomore classes have usually been very deficient, as many as 300 men often being unable to get into University dormitories, and therefore being compelled to obtain living quarters with private families or in boarding houses. The Business School has this year felt that it would be unable to fill three of its dormitories in its new location on the south bank of the Charles, and has offered these to the College. The Executive Committee decided to give the class of 1929 the first choice of these dormitories and at a meeting held Tuesday night, at which...
...student groups composed of from six to ten persons travel in Europe today with a 50 per cent reduction on rail-road fares. We were even able to secure a reduction of from 33 to 50 per cent for individual travelers in some of the countries. Our attempts to obtain reduced rates on visas which otherwise amount to a considerable sum, were also successful. Most of the European governments grant visas gratis or on a reduced rate to our students...