Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successful actions taken by the National Unions and by the C. I. E. in order to obtain reduced rail-road fares and visa fees were, though indirect, nevertheless essential helps to our students...
There can be no question about the University's pressing requirement for unrestricted funds. In every department money is needed for assistance and equipment, such as to obtain the maximum of productivity and the minimum of administrative work for the ablest teachers and investigators. This is the one vital need of the University. According as it is measurably met or not, the prestige of Harvard is maintained or lost...
...Kellermann pointed out the fact that the German teacher must have a great deal more training than the American instructor. In order to obtain a life position as an elementary school teacher, the German must have 19 years of training, and in order to become a high school instructor, he must have 21 years of training. The average number of years that a German professor teaches is 25. The American instructor, however, has an average period of only six years...
...usually imperturable Manchester Guardian cried: "Sir Austen Chamberlain stands almost alone in this country in his willingness to open the door of the League Council to French intrigue. It is difficult to believe that he has or can obtain the support of the Cabinet. He will certainly never obtain that of the country. . . . If he persists in his present line of action, the tender shoot of Locarno will wither at birth...
Thus another English feature is applied as an American innovation. As an educational experiment the fortunes of the Claremont Colleges ought to be of wide interest. The main issue seems to be whether these colleges can obtain a university outlook with a small college organization. The units, obviously, will not have the traditions which bequeath the Oxford colleges their intellectual heritage. The American attempt must find its success in American conditions...