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...Deen Act passed in June 1936. This was 10,000,000 more than the President recommended in his budget message. It was also contrary to the recommendations of a special advisory committee headed by University of Chicago's Floyd Wesley Reeves, which the President appointed in September to sift pending educational legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lobby Lashed | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...purpose of this innovation, which is to be tried as an experiment for at least a two year period, is to enable the scholarship committees of the participating universities to sift and classify their scholarship candidates at an earlier date than has been possible before. This will allow the College to make their decision in May or June, instead of August, and those who miss an award will thus have time to make alternate plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL APTITUDE TESTS PLANNED FOR SCHOLARSHIP MEN | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...evidence on this subject is so conflicting that Crane would like to see Congress appoint a committee of aviation experts to sift the evidence and decide the issue once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crane Urges Congressional Study of Flight Priority | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

...flaming exhortation to every student to bear down and show his true ability in the approaching Midyear and all future examinations, it was contained in President Conant's address delivered last night before the Association of American Colleges. Stressing the benefits of well-planned, stiff examinations to sift the "good risk" from the "bad risk" men, the President demonstrated that the overwhelming majority of bare pass students in college fail to do well in graduate schools, and, similarly, in after life. The familiar argument that a man can loaf through college and then change overnight to a brilliant law student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SELECTIVE PRINCIPLE | 1/15/1937 | See Source »

...been written by ministers and doctors, but I feel that this is a mystery to be solved by a detective, and this is why I secured permission from the Session of the Third Creek Presbyterian Church to again exhume the body of Peter Stuart Ney, and we propose to sift the earth in an endeavor to locate a silver plate which was thought to have been worn in Ney's head, and also a bullet that was supposed to have been in the calf of his leg. I have associated with me Frank N. Littlejohn, chief of detectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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