Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today will be like every other day for President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot when he celebrates his ninety-first birthday. Last night his secretary stated that President Eliot would spend the day quietly at home receiving callers...
...Picture him publishing an article in his paper that was contributed by the Anti-Tobacco League! Preposterous! He would be fired in a hurry. His paper exists for the purpose of breaking down sales resistance and inspiring languid salesmen. Let the college editor go and do likewise. Let him spend his time puzzling out ways of selling his college. Let his editorials be inspirational, exhorting application to study, denouncing immoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass. That is the proper path for him to follow. The New Student...
...France," continued Professor Esteve, "in our literature courses we use the specialty system. That is, we spend perhaps half a year studying one or two works of a single author, going through them carefully, laying great stress on an intimate knowledge of the original texts...
Next fall, a branch of Smith College Northampton, Mass., will be established in Paris. The plan, made public last week, provides that 25 members of the Junior Class shall spend a year in study at the Sorbonne, live with French families, submit to the chaperonage of teacher who will be their "Dean," pay regular tuition fees to Smith College...
When asked what interesting things were in London, Mr. Holmes retorted, "What isn't in London? One could spend 20 years there and still not see it all. If I wished to see as much of London as possible in a short time. I should get on top of a bus and spend all the pennies I had just riding about...