Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached into his wartime memories for an object lesson to the Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped. He had once asked for a certain major general to be placed in command of a corps. He was told the man could not pass medical requirements. Replied General Eisenhower: "Please send this man right away quickly. It's his head and heart I want." Ike got his officer (who, although not identified by the President, was Troy Middleton), and he "fully met every expectation...
...sword, while he twirled a hoop with his free arm and juggled ten balls with his feet. But people paid no attention. They would rather fight each other, or get drunk, or go to a witch-burning. If he were an ascetic, thought Cantalbert, perhaps Heaven would send him an audience. So he made himself a hair shirt and juggled in that, but, except for a few other ascetics, nobody paid any attention. He was a failure...
...some of the houses are almost as old as the school itself, and there is no inovement to abolish them. The yearly cost of an organization is around $180, which may not seem like much, but when considered in the light of the low income farmilies which send students to Ohio, and the cost of the college itself--$320 a year--may often prove prohibitive to students...
Most students have plenty of time for athletics, because the scholastic standards are made more flexible because of the state-support. The governor of Ohio spends a great deal of money to send these young people to college, and he does not intend to see them flunk out. A student goes on warning only if he gets a D average. If his marks go up to D plus, he comes off warning. If they go below, he may conceivably be asked to leave the school...