Word: specially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Special Visas...
Many of these students experienced difficulty in getting out of Germany because of United States immigration quotas which have been filled for two years ahead, and special visas had to be procured. Several barely missed being conscripted into war jobs. The others were already in America before the August crisis...
...president of a great university should make a special effort for clarity, lest his hearers misunderstand...
...abrupt departure of many of Harvard's outstanding teachers. We dislike being deprived of brilliant lecturers and stimulating tutors. We resent the consequent impairment of educational standards. We feel, to put it bluntly, that we are being cheated." In developing this theme, Mr. Ross indulges in little special pleading for the known victims of what he calls "President Conant's slide-rule"--rather he looks into the future warning that "the elimination of an entire age group in the faculty is threatened--one which provides most of the experienced teaching available to undergraduates." While Mr. Ross devotes a good part...
Progress of the experimental group was compared with the records made by a control group of 16 Freshmen, with admission records similar to those of the control group. The control group was given no special training. Comparison of Midyear with November grades showed that while ten students in the experimental group had better records, only five of the "control" group had made improvement...