Word: state-supported
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Most students have plenty of time for athletics, because the scholastic standards are made more flexible because of the state-support. The governor of Ohio spends a great deal of money to send these young people to college, and he does not intend to see them flunk out. A student goes on warning only if he gets a D average. If his marks go up to D plus, he comes off warning. If they go below, he may conceivably be asked to leave the school...
...that the starting point of a college in rural New York should be agriculture and that the curriculum should branch out later so that "any person can find instruction in any study." There is an inaccurate tradition that Cornell is chiefly an agricultural college. Founders Cornell & White integrated the State-support idea with their own gifts so that today the New York State College of Agriculture, the State College of Home Economics, and the State College of Veterinary Medicine are part of Cornell University. But only about one-fifth of the total enrolment are students at these colleges, where tuition...
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