Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student Council report stated that, unless the situation is eased by construction of a new House, there will he dissatisfaction with any system which students and Masters can work...
According to the council, the Masters comply already either wholly or partially with most of the recommendations in the petition. They do give preference for the low-priced rooms to men holding scholarships and jobs. They do require confidential financial report blanks of applicants for the low-priced rooms as the petition seems to advise...
...Commission's statisticians reported that in 1850 there were 890 adults for each 1,000 youths (16 to 25), but today youth is outnumbered 2,200 to 1,000 and by 1960 it will be outnumbered 3,000 to 1,000. A Commission report* blamed this situation on a decline in "fertility among American women." Commission Member Dorothy Canfield Fisher dissented testily: "Why pick on the women? It takes two for that...
...foreign languages a nation chooses to study are, like its songs, one measure of its emotional condition. Last week Dr. Theodore Huebener, director of foreign languages in New York City's public schools, threw light on the present U. S. attitude toward foreigners in a report on the languages studied by the city's high-school youth. Overwhelming favorite (107,000 students): French. Second (41,400): Spanish. Well down on the list (16,500) but gaining fast: Italian. Most spectacular trend: a five-year drop (since Hitler) of 35% in the number studying German...
President Roosevelt took him from TVA, where he was personnel director for two years, to be chairman of his Advisory Committee on Education, which last year delivered a momentous report recommending Federal aid to education...