Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quantity production of college graduates is a fairly cheap proceeding. We have been turning them out in great numbers in this country. But to teach men as individuals costs money more money than America has been willing to pay. The question is whether the money will be forthcoming to support this improvement at Harvard and advances of a similar nature that are being tried at Swarthmore and Dartmouth. It will be interesting to see whether the country in general believes in individual instruction enough to pay adequately for this most hopeful step in education...
...Harvard Fund, of which he is in charge, is a permanent institution which was organized with the intention of providing a means by which every living Harvard graduate would be able to make some contribution to the support of the University. The money which is collected in this way will be given over to the President and the Fellows of the University for unrestricted use for whatever purpose seems necessary. It has long been felt in the University that there are many matters which are not covered by specific grants and that by means of the Fund, resources will...
...popular puzzle to determine definitely upon what foundations Mr. Coolidge's power rests, whether it is rooted in party or tradition or principally in Massachusetts. The coming campaign bids fair to solve a part of this riddle, that portion which asks whether Massachusetts support is essential to the present administration...
...large, it will appear as a rebuke to the President himself. Would the halo of staunch Puritan piety and common sense fall away from Mr. Coolidge in the eyes of fickle politicians? Would his hopes for a third term fade? These are interesting speculations. If shorn of his home support, the President should remain in the saddle, he would afford an instance of party control remarkable in American history The coming campaign which is fraught with such intriguing possibilities will be more zestfully watched than is usually the case with senatorial battles...
...afternoons this Lenten season, children come flocking to the Church of the Ascension, Manhattan. They are coming to their own Children's Church, coming to hear Rev. John W. Suter Jr. talk to them in simple and understandable terms about religion and ideals. Their service is nonsectarian, has the support of five churches working in the Washington Square district-First Presbyterian, Washington Square Methodist, Judson Memorial Baptist, Grace Church and Church of the Ascension...