Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Delhi. From Bombay, whither sped the Seven Wise Men, plunging 700 miles into the interior, on a special, troop-guarded train? Naturally their objective was New Delhi, the superb Viceregal Capital of British India, on which some $150,000,000 has already been spent, so that the more important of its sumptuous white stone buildings already tower and glisten in the Indian...
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, Viscount Byng of Vimy, Admirals Beatty and Jellicoe, and, symbolically to the fore of the bier, clad in a greenish-brown Belgian uniform, Baron de Ceynick, Field Marshal of the Belgian Army, special representative of King Albert of the Belgians in whose realm was launched the first British attack...
Among teachers of Speech, Sincerity ranks a paradoxical first. Healthfulness is held in least favor by the Department of Mathematics. But most illuminating when connected with the present state of society is the ranking of the special virtue of Chastity. Placed lowest of all by the teachers of the social sciences, it finds haven in the assistant professor, only teacher to give it any place...
...crews will consists at first of rowing in the tank and on the machines. Most of the men will row only three times a week. In the morning from 10 until 1 o'clock individual instruction will be given any crew candidates who is in need of some special corrections...
...education and with substituting for it, within reasonable bounds, individual self-development. The American college is constantly struggling with the problem of how to get the mass of its students interested. The answer is to put them "on their own." The student that is allowed to choose a special topic that interests him, and to work it out for himself under advice, is bound to become interested. Education then become what the word itself means. Yale Alumni Weekly