Word: rising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While there will be many common problems which the directors of these schools will be able to discuss, the very divergence in type among the summer schools will give rise to new viewpoints and methods, peculiar to individual institutions, which may prove beneficial for the delegates to the conference. The results of this meeting will help to solve some of the difficulties which confront a branch of the educational system which is growing ever more popular...
...Daladier's rapid rise from comparative obscurity to Premier is doubtless the result of his refusal to support Poincare in 1928. He is probably not committed to the capital levy, and as leader of the Radical-Socialist party he has gained the long sought opportunity of the Left to get back into power...
...general adoption of a laxer attitude on the part of school and college authorities would unquestionably give rise to the growth of a class of pseudo students whose only aim in going to a large institution would be to compete in athletics as long as they could stay, and then, reputation earned, to find employment, athletic or otherwise, on the basis...
...college and non-college athletics has been so hotly discussed of recent years that no situation even remotely connected with it can escape the searchlights of publicity. The extraordinary organization of college athletics, the amounts of money involved, and the quasi-public character of modern college games have given rise to a complicated machinery of control which would have never been necessary had athletics enjoyed a less prominent position in education. The exhaustive report of the Carnegie Foundation is but another monument to the complexity of the amateur problem...
...recent visit of the British Prime Minister, besides paying the way for an international arms conference, has focused attention on the British Labour Party whose rapid rise to power since the war is generally so little understood in this country. The Vagabond has always held a rather confused idea of this party which has twice given Britain a socialist government. A mixture of lofty idealism and practical politics which seems to have succeeded in selling a left wing government to one of the world's most conservative communities certainly presents a fascinating subject. This morning the Vagabond intends to clear...