Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time, the state of Maine is lacking woefully in its support of its state university. It has departed somewhat from an absolutely inadequate appropriation in 1922, but it is still far from realizing its obligations, and even from adopting as generous an attitude as that shown by smaller and poorer states...
...force of her arguments was established the most strongly when she declared that in 1924 alone she received 87,000 letters from women of the poorer classes asking for information on birth control, which advice she was unable to impart because of the narrowness of the laws. Birth control clinics in other countries, she said, are declared public utilities; in the United States they are suppressed as public nuisances...
...ought to come, under the head of undergraduate affairs, despite the efforts of alumni to take it under their protecting wings. Yet the sort of interest which witnesses two or three major setbacks and immediately demands a new coach can be nothing but harmful. It is poor sportsmanship and poorer policy...
However prices soon rose to such an extent that poorer students had to "board themselves". As one remarked, "I can get along quite well for nine dollars a term". In 1865 Thayer Commons were started in the terminal station of the "Harvard Branch Railway which had just been forced out of business." This venture was so successful that in 1874, at the suggestion of President Eliot, who had been making extensive investigations on the subject both here and abroad, the concern was reorganized, expanded, and placed in the have of Memorial Hall, where it has remained until this...
...year ago, reduction of dues for indigent students was promised for this fall. Regardless of whether German money values are now stable enough for the fulfillment of this promise and for the restoration of scholarships for first-year men, the poorer Berlin students read into the rector's statement an attempt to purge the University of Democratic and Socialist elements. The rector is a "superpatriot" or Nationalist...