Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bold and unreasonable parent offered $10,000 a year for four years to any college that would give his son a "custom-made education, a complete job to specifications," and guarantee a result "superior to the usual quantity product." According to the story, as told in the Atlantic, a certain college president lacked the nerve to accept the challenge. But Dr. Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College, accepts it and says he will do the job for his regular rate of only $700 per year...
Sewall graduated from Harvard College in 1721, was appointed judge of the Superior Court of Judicature for the Province of Massachusetts in 1729, and in 1752 was made chief justice. He died in 1760. The painting by Feke, is regarded as a splendid example of his work, of which the School has another in the group of the family of Isaac Royall, founder of the Royall professorship. The Law School was able to acquire the Sewall portrait through the generosity of the Harvard Law School Association, and some 35 graduates and friends...
...Outrageous!" exclaimed Dr. Hu. "Our judicial system is superior to those existing in Japan and Turkey when the powers allowed those nations to take full jurisdiction over foreigners [respectively in 1899 and 1926]. ... It is unjust and unreasonable for the powers to insist on the retention of extraterritoriality in China on the ground that our laws do not exactly resemble their...
...revealed that this dismissal came as part of a definite program of revision of Widener cleaning methods and was merely made more abrupt by the demands of the State Board that Harvard meet the usual scale of office scrubbers. Since the working conditions in Widener are alleged to be superior to those usual in metropolitan office buildings, the University did not feel called upon to meet this scale and met the demands of the board in somewhat startling manner of enclosing an honorable discharge with the salary checks of the women involved. Eleven women were laid off in this fashion...
...Superior teamplay by the Crimson forward lines in the opening period, together with a consistantly hard checking defense, resulted in the submerging of the Boston University sextet under a 6 to 1 score at the Boston Garden last evening. Two other potential Crimson goals, scored as the referee was blowing his whistle to inflict a penalty, were disallowed...