Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall be most grateful if you can obtain full publicity for the declaration I want to give you now," said Rumania's silky-mannered new Poet-Premier Octavian Goga to George Eric Rowe Gedye of the New York Times in Bucharest last week. "The Jewish problem is an old one here, and it is a Rumanian tragedy. Briefly, we have far too many Jews...
...present time too many students are admitted to college merely on their ability to obtain high grades at school, and to pass the comparatively simple requirements of the college boards. Little attention is paid to a student's ability to adjust himself to a new scholastic standard, to a new intellectual, social and moral environment. Too many men who lack sufficient moral and mental stability, arrive at college, and because they are unprepared to cope with entirely different conditions, they often are ruthlessly "flunked out." Many of these unfortunates are thus led to believe that they are complete failures...
...average questionnaire sent to college applicants in secondary schools is entirely inadequate. Very few Universities obtain detailed reports from a young man's school, from his family, or from outside individuals who know him well. Personal interviews, the best guide of all, are almost never required. Little attempt is made to obtain data on a student's background, his adjustability, his ability to get along with his contemporaries or his emotional make-up, and as a result many young men are "misfits" in college. The problems of a University like Harvard are vastly different from those of family and school...
...provisions of the will are very broad... After careful consideration and consultation with a number of journalists, The Corporation has decided that initially the income of the fund shall be used to support... "in-service fellowships" (which) will carry stipends sufficient to make it possible for the holders to obtain a leave of absense from their regular work without too great financial loss... The holder of such a fellowship would, of course, be invited to Cambridge only if he had a clear idea of the line of study he wished to pursue... The plan is frankly experimental... We are, however...
...planned next year to establish workshops in the Department of Architecture, where students may obtain further practical experience with the fundamental processes of manufacture that are peculiar to buildings...