Word: statement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual report of the Rhodes scholarship trust, which has just been issued, contains a statement giving the young American Rhodes scholars at Oxford credit for filling well an important place in the life and work of the ancient university. There are 175 scholarship holders, about one-fourteenth of the whole student body, a number that offers abundant opportunity for influence on both sides...
Candidates for the Richard Prize must submit to the Chairman of the Department of Economics a statement of their previous studies, submitting also any written work done by them...
...rebuttal, the negative repeated the statement often made during the debate, "Where immigration is most, unemployment is least." The literacy test, also, is obviously unfair in that it would bar 300,000 people when only 3,000 should be barred. There is absolutely no connection between the criminal and illiterate elements. Finally, figures and experience show that the southern foreigner can be assimilated, and that he can be educated in our schools so that he is not a drag on the community, which was claimed by the affirmative...
Much of the editorial comment naturally concerns the recent agreement between Harvard and Tech., and includes a clear and sympathetic statement by President Maclaurin...
...Sessions refreshes our memory with a piquant resume of the pros and cons of the Parsifal question, of considerable moment since the expiration of the Bayrenth copyright. There seems to be a slight inconsistency between the statement that Parsifal as a character is one of Wagner's dramatic failures and the following acknowledgement that a good singing actor can make the role entirely convincing. But all this is not to carp unduly. The problem in all criticism, musical or general, is how to hold the balance true between courage and personal conviction and a broad estimate of different aspects...