Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...army will apply to the presidents of several leading colleges for juniors, working their way through college, who desire additional support from the government. These men will be formed into a self-sufficient unit which will be designated the "Munitions Battalion" for some obscure reason. Their station will be near Washington. At the end of their college term, they will be assembled and given an intensive military course until college reopens. Their training will be similar to that given at Plattsburg before...
...athletic danger is perhaps a result of the enormous influence that alumni have in this country. We do not have in Great Britain the same catering to the graduates of our schools, partly because the schools are entirely or almost entirely independent of the financial support of the alumni. We do not have endowment drives and our university presidents are not campaign managers...
Although this moy seem to be in some ways like the State universities in the West, there is an essential difference. In America the State not only contributes to the support of the school, appoints its officials, and, as in the case of evolution, restricts its curriculum. On the other hand, the British university that is supported by local funds still retains its independence, for the towns have acted in a most generous fashion, allowing the universities to spend the money as they think best...
Stoughton Bell '60, of Boston, is chairman for the States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut in the drive for funds. That widespread support of the compaign will come not only from the public is forecast by W. M. Powell '98, of New York City, who is national chairman of the campaign...
...hogs and struggle with a husband of whom the less said the better. She bore two girls. The valley was a weird one, thinly settled with religious fanatics, half-breed Indians, escaped murderers. Not for three years did she return to New York, free again, with her girls to support. She worked on newspapers and the stage. She met and married Carl Bender, a Danish artist, who sympathized with her instinct for writing and encouraged the project of her present work. The New York to which she goes back in its pages is the New York of her girlhood, speculatively...