Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Educational. No shrewd observer last week expected anything very definite to come from Premier van Zeeland's return to Princeton. They did not believe that he had anything so concrete as even a trade agreement to offer Mr. Roosevelt. They did believe that the trip was an exploratory gesture by the Roosevelt Administration and the Oslo group looking toward more definite action, some day. They believed that from his wholehearted admiration for President Roosevelt and the U. S. and his shrewd knowledge of European conditions. Premier van Zeeland was the best man on the Continent to make the trip...
...Cuba's history. Under its provisions thousands of prisoners awaiting trial for political offenses and common crimes ranging from pocket-picking to murder, committed before May 20, would be turned out of Cuba's crowded jails. In addition, hundreds of political exiles would be free to return, even onetime (1925-33) President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado, now in Montreal where his secretary announced he would be likely to stay. If this move was calculated to throw a scare into Boss Batista's restive Congress it worked too well, for the Senators immediately forgot the budget to shriek...
...them; their floe was drifting away from the Pole five miles each day, had already moved some 60 miles. Exciting event: someone spotted a guillemot, black-&-white seabird heretofore unknown so far north. Finally, with the base in perfect running order, the four planes took off together for the return to Rudolf Island 560 miles away. At the Pole for a year, they left four scientists and a dog. Since the gasoline supply was short, one of the planes sacrificed half its tankage for the others, came down halfway to wait until more fuel could be flown north. The rest...
...great objection of all concentrators was the constantly recurring and inescapable requirement of papers and second term hour exams in other courses just before divisional examinations, especially in the case of Senior honors candidates. But the general feeling was that there is no field in the University which can return more interest and background for the amount of effort...
...connection with the findings of the conference was the suggestion recently launched by the Alumni Placement Service that manufacturers should give summer "try-outs" to men who plan to return for more study in the fall. The Service says that "such tryout experiences give a young man a does of realism and help him better make his final selection of a job" as well as giving the company time for "observation of a beginner's work before he is put on the permanent payroll