Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firmly fixed to be curtailed; and few would desired to shorten it if the change meant that the college plant and the college students would be unused and idle longer than they are now. If our teachers are to do their share in the advancement of learning, relief must be sought within the limits of the present calendar...
...member of the Faculty would be willing to seek such relief at the expense of the students. The overwhelming majority feel that a plan has been devised which, with careful administration, will benefit the students...
...action taken on Monday by the Princeton Senior Council only throws into more vivid relief the importance of the spirit that lies behind such cooperation between administrators and students. In tendering its resignation, the Princeton Council has registered the most effective protest possible against that form of student government which by edict of the dean hopes to effect lasting and beneficial reform. It is brought out clearly in the resignation of the Council that the step is taken not as a protest against the particular reform in question, but against the spirit in which it is made...
...administered. Here is how it came to his hands. The Senate, fortnight ago, passed the McNary-Haugen bill, 47 to 39. Party lines were torn to shreds; the vote was almost purely sectional-the West and South against the East. The House, last week, threw aside its own farm relief bill, adopted the McNary-Haugen bill exactly as it came from the Senate. Thus, the delay of a conference was obliterated. The farm bloc, with grey-haired Representative Haugen at the helm, bowled over the regular Republican organization with steamroller tactics that recalled the days of "Uncle Joe" Cannon...
Purpose. "Today one can truthfully say that medical researches designed to relieve generations yet unborn are looked upon as being almost holy, whereas the relief of people who are now miserable and suffering is, too often, looked on as rather sordid and commercial. Today we are suffering from too much knowledge too widely diffused. We devote too much effort to driving home detailed information and too little to the development of perspective."?Dr. William James Mayo, Rochester, Minn...