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...result the late practice of awarding excess subsidies to students has developed at many divinity schools. he said. "We have been the spearhead of a movement which has looked to improving the standard of the ministry by reducing large and indiscriminate theological scholarships, and by throwing the costs of his study more and more upon the student himself," the report states...
While the week's biggest crowd helped defray mortgage interest of $200,000 on its huge stadium, Pitt, beaten fortnight ago by little Duquesne, recovered to give Notre Dame its worst defeat since 1925- 26-to-0. Spearhead of the Pitt attack, and author of one Pitt touchdown was the youngest player on the field, Marshall ("Biggie") Goldberg, stocky sophomore who, next morning, celebrated his 18th birthday by reading that the country's ablest football writers had picked him as a prospect for the 1936 All-America...
Generally in The Netherlands last week the Crown Princess' choice came as a complete surprise almost completely popular. Only Dutch Socialist papers such as Het Volk grumbled that Benno is a German and Germany is now the spearhead of anti-Socialist forces. However, likeable Benno served most of his apprenticeship to the German Dye Trust in its Paris office, speaks French even better than he speaks Dutch, and would be able from experience to show buxom Juliana a good time in Paris swank spots...
Spanish workmen of the Red Militia, desperately battling to save Madrid, outnumbered two-to-one last week the advancing spearhead of White professional soldiers 67 miles from the Capital. Ensued a conflict savage in the extreme, with Madrid claiming that the Whites had been pushed back 15 miles, and Seville headquarters of the Whites saying they had defeated the Reds. But the week brought one decisive action in Spain's bloody stalemate...
...night on their once Free City will be German in fact, if not by a Göring proclamation. Shopkeepers hoped they have not been duped by Nazi assurances that Danzig is going to boom as General Göring turns it into a great German air base and "Spearhead against Russia...