Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average graduate to stick to his first choice, particularly if he has had special training for it, no matter how distasteful he may find it. For the student, learning from another is obviously the best thing he can do. The informality of these groups will enable him to obtain the views of leaders of several professions, giving him a wide field from which to choose. The success of the plan at Amherst and Princeton would seem to show that it will be of value here...
...Yale and Harvard met yesterday in an attempt to solve the problems of inter-collegiate relations arising from the House Plan. There can be no doubt that the House Plan has created the possibility of linking the internal house athletic systems of both universities in intercollegiate competition. To obtain by visits and conferences a working knowledge of the Houses, in practice as well as theory, is the first step towards solving these problems...
...reverse, then, of Mr. Robinson's contentions in regard to scholarship seem to obtain at Princeton; namely, that if scholastic rating is a fair index of the extent to which a man is benefiting from the college curriculum, the man working his way is getting more out of his scholastic work than his more financially favored classmate. The reason for this is that the former, in most cases, necessarily acquires the ability to arrange his time effectively; he learns that he can use to advantage minutes which are wasted by his classmate. The time that he is forced to spend...
...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 ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...
These trade cards as they are called are difficult to obtain today and consequently of value. Passed by hand or distributed through the mails they formed an important medium of advertising until the advent of modern magazines and newspapers. Mrs. Landauer while collecting a large number of these has become an authority on the subject and has published a book on it. She also recently made a presentation of a collection of American trade cards to the New York Historical Society and French and English ones to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The British Museum has one of the world...