Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entrance to Yale simply because he may "flunk" a single subject in his finals. The ending of the September "finals" has come largely because the University does not expect particularly good results form a school-boy who has wasted his time during the school year and hurries through a summer school to make up for it . . . We can look on these changes as long steps forward to the day when entrance examinations will be of loss importance even than they are now, a boy's record and proved ability count even more than they do now. --Yale Alumni Weekly
...have welcomed to our meetings students of all religious faiths. Our annual Christmas greetings are sent to five hundred graduates of Harvard engaged in educational, evangelical, agricultural and medical work abroad, regardless of their religious affiliations. Our educational project, the Daily Vacation Bible School, which we support each summer for the children of Cambridge, is conducted by a non-sectarian organization, its faculty is selected on a non-sectarian basis and the school is actually attended by Catholics and Protestants alike...
...elegant village on the Atlantic Coast of France near gaudy Biarritz* had news, if few visitors, last week. A villa, said this one to that one, had been leased by the U. S. embassy at Paris for the use of Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg next summer...
...Last summer (TIME, July 26) one Dexter E. Chipps went to Evangelist Norris' study in the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, to remonstrate against the evangelist's utterances upon Chipps' close friend, Mayor H. C. Meacham of Fort Worth. Politics, the Ku Klux Klan, Roman Catholicism¶all lay behind the diatribes that Evangelist Norris considered himself called upon to utter from his church rostrum. He had been threatened with death; he believed that angry Mr. Chipps had come to kill him; he, famed for his gunmanship, shot quickly, to be first. Later he learned, with...
...Association of Merchant Tailors of America, assembled at Memphis, Tenn., males were told what not to wear: light tan or lemon-colored shoes, spats with tan shoes, top hats with tuxedos, bright colored hats and overcoats with any sort of evening clothes, soft collars in the city in non-summer months...