Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exception in favor of the soccer team seems reasonable. A law kept merely for its own sake is unfortunate. In this case the spirit may be maintained intact, although the letter is changed. At any rate, the present compromise satisfies no one and means that the soccer team must spend fourteen extra hours on the train...
...more serious aspects of life. America's contributions are on the negative side of the ledger. America is responsible for the extensive use of cosmetics. America has taken Art and pasted her on billboards. America has taken away the joy of living and substituted instead the joy of spending and of getting in order to spend more...
...expenditure of a sum sufficient to build a State university, most of the endowed institutions would endorse the plan. But, as has often been pointed out, the mere tuition fee is a small part of the expense of a university education. Most men who can find time to spend four years in college, and who are convinced of the advantages to be derived therefrom, find little difficulty in meeting the cost of tuition. It is the cost of living away from home, and the time taken from their work, which keeps many men from entering college...
...parts of the country would help the situation materially. A suggestion made by Dean Holmes of the Harvard School of Education seems to meet the facts. He points out that the real need for higher education at the public cost in the need of those who cannot afford to spend their time at an institution situated in any one spot. A State university, therefore, organized to help men study at their homes, would be the best-fitted one to supply the need. The work would be directed by means of correspondence courses, reading lists, and the like. Such a university...
...clock, when he is required to ride for an hour if he is in a mounted branch of the service. The Cavalry and Infantry detachments are strongest at Cambridge, though a great many branches are represented. Besides the regular winter work, each student is required to spend one month every summer at a military camp. The work here is of a more practical nature, but still does not take up all of a man's true. The afternoon is almost always devoted to outdoor sports, much as it is in the R. O. T. C. camps in this country...