Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present. The objection does not follow naturally, but it may follow in this case and so throw discredit on the whole trend of the collegiate educational system. The proposal to abolish examinations has come not through evolution and the gradual growth of the desire the learn but as a relief measure, a means of stopping cramming and cheating at examinations by removing the examinations. While admitting that the Honor System in college has little to recommend it and the policing of examination rooms remains an insult to many, yet the Columbia method seems to approach the problem from the wrong...
...time is of the essence of the problem. The German people are not in danger of starvation. They are starving. They are also in a state of bankruptcy and economic chaos, while under-nourishment and tuberculosis are doing their work upon children and adults alike. American and European relief work has been nobly forwarded, but it is essential to ship food and clothing and raw material upon credit to Hamburg--and this not by private enterprise only, but as an international undertaking of the first order. Otherwise we may look to see the tragedy of a whole nation...
...reported that the President had begun preparation of his ad- dress to Congress, to be delivered on Dec. 3. The conjecture is that his chief topics will be the farm situation, tax relief and the railway problem...
...Americanization of Europe (which the English philosopher, Bertrand Russell, views with alarm) proceeds. The Committee for Relief in Belgium Educational Foundation, headed by Herbert C. Hoover, is selecting plans for a group of dormitories on the American plan to be erected at the University of Brussels. John Mead Howells, consulting architect, claimed for the program recently that it would encourage " college spirit " on the Continent?something which, for better or worse, the Continent has so far got along without...
...Mitchel Field, L. I., was held an air carnival on behalf of the Army Relief Society. Twenty-four thousand spectators had thrills...