Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the 72-0 massacre which the Bisons suffered at the hands of Cornell last Saturday, the University coaches are regretting that they were unable to obtain an opening game opponent more capable of testing their second and third teams, which constitute the chief problem of Coach Casey and his assistants at the present moment...
...title of Colonel. They are in a large measure made up of undergraduate colleges, schools of business, correspondence schools, music schools, and all the other things that serve to attract students. This state of affairs is likely to continue for a long time, and these institutions will desire to obtain large sums of money to maintain an athletic regime so that their boys may be induced to play games which apparently they would not otherwise play. Hence the need for football or some equally good money-getter...
...scholarships bring a stipend of 400 pounds a year, for two or three years' tenure at Oxford. Since most Rhodes Scholars obtain standing at Oxford which enables them to take a degree in two years, appointments are made for two years, but a student who wishes to remain for a third, may do be provided he presents a satisfactory preliminary programme for that period. By a recent ruling a Scholarship holder may leave Oxford after his second year there, and return to take his third year after a period of work in his own country, of he may spend...
...University's then unquestioning trust was established, and suggestions were made for preventing a proxy from taking the examinations in lieu of the person receiving the credit. The situation was presumably remedied when it was decreed that all those who take the examination first register at University Hall and obtain identification blanks to admit them to the test...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($3 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME. 135 East 42nd St., New York City...