Word: tended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belief: their God. Since the Diaspora (their dispersal from Palestine) Jews have followed many gods. Modern Jews have espoused two diametrically opposed causes: 1) Radicalism (which promises Jews a society without racial prejudice) and 2) Zionism (which promises Jews a national home in Palestine). While leftist-minded Jewish composers tend to express themselves in the tuneless technicalities of modernism, or in the Negroid dialect of jazz, Zionist-minded Jewish composers seek a purely Jewish variety of concert music, color their symphonies and sonatas with the traditional chants of the ancient Hebrews...
Average income of the Harvard graduate designers is $4,675 a year, with individual salaries ranging from $1,500 to $30,000. Salaries tend to rise with increase in experience. Young grads in their first three years average $2,500, while those with from 10 to 15 years' experience make...
This unfortunate situation reveals two fundamental weaknesses in our American educational set up, which tend to destroy the effectiveness of our universities and lower their scholastic standings. First is that there are not enough young men in the country who can afford to pay for a college education, although there are many who have the ability. Second is that there are too many sub-marginal institutions which cannot operate at a profit, and thus are unable to keep up their scholastic requirements and standards. The result is that many institutions practically guarantee a degree to any student...
...period in a man's life is better suited for airing his views than the four years spent as a college undergraduate. It is that fertile period when opinions are approaching maturity, and affiliations which tend to persuade prudence and tie the tongue are not yet formed...
...issue will be a satisfactory one, that they will stay placed and find their work congenial. It is principally to these men who are tempted to step blindly into jobs tendered by friends and relatives that the Alumni Placement Office would utter a word of caution and ex- tend what assistance...