Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placing of instructional costs on the student has brought about a higher tuition than in other departments of the University. It is because of this that a loan fund is maintained from which students of promise may obtain $200 in the first year and $400 in the second year, to help pay their expenses. These loans, however, are made on a strictly busines basis, bearing 6 per cent interest and maturing three years after a man leaves the School. The arrangement has been found preferable to the establishment of scholarships as is the custom in other departments of the University...
Sometime ago money was given to the department to buy a quarry suitable for research and last summer an additional contribution enabled Professor Charles Palache to obtain quarry rights on a large ledge of granite in Greenwood Maine. K. K. Landis 3G, started work early in the summer with two miners and blasted hundreds of tons of rock all of which had to be examined and if interesting a small specimen had to be saved for experimentation in the laboratories in the University Museum...
...Poincareé stated that France will not interfere in the internal affairs of Germany, neither will she attempt " any permanent domination of territories detached from Germany." Her entire conduct is actuated by the single desire to obtain payment of reparations...
...Position. The position of the Government was precarious in the extreme. It was considered that it could not possibly last longer than a few weeks. From the Right and from the Left Chancellor Stresemann was assailed chiefly on account of his Ruhr policy, but he succeeded in obtaining a vote of confidence in the Reichstag against both Monarchists and Communists. It was expected that he would obtain dictatorial powers for the Cabinet by giving a sop to the Socialists-a promise not to interfere with the eight-hour working day. How far the Chancellor will be able to exercise dictatorial...
Even without completing the entire course, Colonel Browning said, a man could obtain valuable preparation for military service, but he maintained that whatever courses were taken must be followed in their logical sequence...