Word: student
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With dark-haired, spectacled Joseph Cadden, 25, leader of the U. S. National Student Federation when he was at Brown, and now a Providence newspaperman, as chairman, youth ran its own show in grownup style. From a big pressroom a dozen telegraph tickers sent correspondents' reports to the world press. At plenary sessions delegates had earphones (such as the League of Nations uses) through which they heard English, French or Spanish translations of speeches. Highlight: India's Yusuf Meherally shrilling: "181 years of British rule have reduced India to appalling poverty, mass illiteracy, malnutrition and disease...
...great many-about one quarter-of the young hopefuls who go to college flunk out hopelessly. That is one reason why educators would like to be clairvoyant. Last week two experts in the Federal Office of Education turned out an elaborate statistical system* for predicting whether a student will do well in college (and, therefore, whether he ought...
...school of thought that had its heyday more than 40 years ago made news. As the Henry George School of Social Science bought a $50,000 building in Manhattan for schoolhouse and headquarters, disciples of Georgism disclosed that the single-tax doctrine today has some 21,000 student followers throughout the U. S., is growing rapidly...
Though he thus flinches from the hurly-burly of modern life, Philosopher Joad is no pantywaist philosopher. Three years ago, when he witnessed the first firewalk performed in England (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935); newshawks asked him, as a well-known student of psychic phenomena, what he thought of the feat. Scholar Joad, taking a leaf from the book of George Bernard Shaw, who charges $1 a word for answering questions, said he could make no observations unless he was paid five guineas...
Partnership. Distinctly the student in appearance, President Martin is short, ruddy, wears spectacles and double-breasted suits, talks with quiet assurance. No one is more aware than he that he faces a tough job. Last week he remarked: "The honeymoon is over. Now I'll have to produce." First items on his agenda are five, the same five that head the list of William O. Douglas. Both Douglas and Martin say they are 100% in agreement. Soon to be broached to the Exchange, therefore, are: 1) a depository for customers' funds now kept helter-skelter in brokerage houses...