Word: staying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resignation of Coach Harold Ulen as swimming coach of Syracuse University. Altho no official statement was given by the Hill mentor, it is believed that he will assume his duties as head coach at Harvard University next fall. Ulen has been the recipient of numerous attractive offers during his stay here, but he had foregone all of them because of satisfactory treatment he had been accorded...
Across the White House luncheon table Henry Ford discussed prohibition with President Hoover, then stepped in front of the White House to announce: "Prohibition is here to stay. Absolute enforcement must come. . . . Nobody wants to fly with a drunken aviator...
Then came two famed southerners, Principal Robert Russa Moton of Tuskegee Institute (Negroes) and Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church South. Bishop Cannon was asked to stay for a meal, discuss prohibition...
...exceptional cases, who is the goal of the latest ruling, will have no such result. On the contrary, it should encourage the schools not only to cram their students with the knowledge necessary to pass the entrance requirements but also to teach them to study so that they can stay in college once they have gained admission...
...choice of studies, broadened the entrance requirements, built up student interest in Honor degrees and, perhaps most interesting of all, introduced the "general examinations" which are the hub on which Harvard now turns scholastically. The "reading period" at Harvard, an offshoot of the "general examinations" has now come to stay as a useful innovation: it apparently allows for just that leisure to turn around that the average student needs before he comes up for his periodic examinations, and it also changes the character of such examinations so that they become intellectual experiences instead of more tests of memory and repetition...