Word: self-help
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...university employs 182 students, loaned money to 542 this year. The university loan fund is more than $60,000. In January, students and alumni launched a drive for a $200,000 emergency loan fund, of which $56,000 had been raised last week. The Y. M. C. A. self-help bureau finds endorsers for notes of worthy students. The university dining hall has reduced the price of board to $20 per month. Next year Carolina expects an increased enrollment, has many applications for transfer from more expensive institutions...
...political life, he realized, largely depended on what he did this winter. Twice he had tried and failed to hold down Unemployment. His third attempt, he knew, will be judged at renomination time and sentenced or applauded at the subsequent election. Convinced that his relief formula of local self-help was sound, he set about enlarging its scope, enlisting Big Names to increase its prestige. No less than the rising tide of joblessness, he was combating a growing Congressional demand for direct Federal aid - for a Dole...
...observance. He did not mention Prohibition by name. He reminded the legionaires of the $900,000,000 the U. S. is spending each year to care for 700,000 World War Veterans, declared that their "demands upon the government should not exceed the measure that justice requires and self-help can provide...
...extensively used in connection with other parts of the course. In Civil Procedure various texts on common law pleading. Clark on Code Pleading, Professor Scott's little book, and Professor Morgan's Introduction together with various law review articles constitute the materials with which the men counteract by self-help defective instruction. Already the case system as applied to these courses is in large measure a legal education...
...honor of the Spaniard is based on pure subjective passion, the pathos of the lone individual. ... Self-help alone appeals to him as being both sensible and justified. ... The impartial judge who in cold blood sentences to death ... must in the eyes of the Spaniard rank lower than the murderer. ... Spain belongs not to Europe but to Africa...