Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dean of the graduate school at Yale university urges that graduate schools throughout the country agree upon a scale of stipends to advanced students. Whatever the final plans adopted in preparing a uniform standard of granting scholarships, it would no doubt prevent this "shopping" about and give interested, deserving graduates a better opportunity to proceed with advanced study and research. Daily Illini...
...operator of a steel mill or a dairy or a garage can cut his employes' wages at will. The employes may protest, strike, picket his plant, but nothing more. Not so with railroad operators. First step required by the Railroad Labor Act for altering the wage scale on a railroad is a 30-day notice of intention to the unions. Arbitration and mediation go step by step up to the Federal Board of Mediation. If no agreement has been reached at this stage, the President of the U. S. appoints a committee by whose ruling the contesting parties are expected...
...extra financial burden which the tutorial system causes has been one of the chief impediments to its spread. Harvard's large-scale revision of its educational system to make way for the tutor could hardly be widely imitated by other colleges. Nor should it be, for in such cases a gradual evolution is better than a forced transition. For many colleges, existent fraternity groups provide a special opportunity for gradual experiment and adaption...
...going to organize a really effective world peace power without a 'Santa Claus'," Professor Hart continued. "The League is very valuable for making joint treaties and for settling small disputes between minor powers, but when it comes to preventing war on a large scale, it simply cannot do it. For example, if Russia should get control of Manchuria, there would be a war to the death between Russia and Japan...
...McClintock found an increasing trend towards large-scale buildings in every one of the cities. The report cites, as "probably the most spectacular instance of this tendency to large-scale building, the Cleveland Terminal Building. Here on the 'air-rights' over the tracks of the union terminal, seven large buildings, all connected with passage-ways and arcades, are being built, consisting of a complete community...