Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That any undergraduate whose privilege has expired may ask and generally obtain permission for ten or twenty more entries into Widener's Ark is no solution. No student should have to ask as a favor what should be a right. No arrangement can be satisfactory that does not give those striving for honors unlimited opportunity to gain the fullest benefit from the "finest college library in the world...
Haynes said that students engaged in serious work can receive extensions of ten more. He keeps close watsh on their work in order to find out if they are using their privilege wall, and those doing special research can obtain extensions beyond the ordinary two or three...
...shiver at any official summons. Such an attitude is incorrect. Student tuition and alumni endowment pay dean's salaries, and their proper duties are corrective and advisory rather than disciplinary. Moreover, to keep in touch with student trends and sentiments, deans must keep in contact with their charges; they obtain information in this way as well as giving...
...chat, or who refuse to go through "all that red tape." This is nonsense, or at least an exaggeration. Deans are busy men with little time for idle gossip or banter, but they are certainly far from aloof. Rumor to the contrary, a puzzled or worried student can still obtain an appointment quite as readily and quickly at University Hall as he could with any active business or professional man. Few persons would choose to sit in their rooms and worry about an exam when adequate books or notes for preparation were available in the library. They would...
...Cleveland school system. He was the chief witness against Eugene Debs when that celebrated pacifist was tried for violation of the Espionage Act as a result of a speech made in Canton, Ohio, in 1918 and given a 20-year sentence. Later he regretted the outcome, tried to obtain Debs's release...