Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cases the type of education offered at Oxford is bound to vary from that expected or desired by the candidate who comes from a country of different traditions and standards. Two years should be sufficient to determine the possible value of a third, and if during this time the student finds that he has reaped all possible profit, it is unfortunate that the force of regulation and opinion should require further attendance.. In the past, the few bold spirits who have summarily resigned before the expiration of the usual term, have done so with the disapprobation of the officials...
During the past decade universities have become "news", and not alone the activities and plans of the University, but also the criticisms of its undergraduates are featured by the press. Under these circumstances it is imperative for all concerned with such matters, student editors as well as administrative officers, to have regard for the exactness of their statements, and the misapprehensions which they may create in the minds of the public. Yours very truly, Robert K. Lamb, Executive Secretary In charge of publicity...
...That President Hoover would bring Efficiency and Organization to the White House no one ever doubted. First he cleaned up the presidential desk, had removed the old green student's lamp, the ornate paper weights, the jar of smelling salts...
...same time President Hoover appointed a staunch lowan, Col. Harry L. Gilchrist, 59, to be Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, also with the rank of Major General. He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and de- gassing processes...
...considered a "contract." By learning their lessons, the children fulfill their contracts, achieve a sense of responsibility, advance toward their looming citizenship with proper civic consciousness. In the Montezuma Mountain School for Boys, Los Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor, a police commissioner, a labor commissioner. Violators of community regulations are turned over by the police to the labor commissioner who makes them work. Thus, since Montezuma, like all schools, has chronic and clonic law-violators, a student-built gymnasium was erected. Last week, in Worcester, Mass., Clark...