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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, should the enlargement of its sphere ensure a more just system of appointment. The university has created an organization which should be in a position to square the decisions of the individual departments with the general regulations and budgetary policy of the entire college. A method of long-term planning may well be the result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPOINTMENTS FOR THE PROMOTIONAL SYSTEM | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

...Senator Borah never "filibusters," hates the term and practice. This has not prevented him from talking extensively, day after day, on the same subject, if he saw fit. To kill time, filibusterers read cookbooks, tracts into the Congressional Record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Canada, many a first-grade moppet began the term without textbooks, for the books they were to have used went down with the Athenia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alarums and Excursions (cont'd) | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Through college assistance, on the average over a thousand Harvard students a year ordinarily find term time and summer employment, and in good years earn between $200,000 and $300,000 to help finance their schooling, Sharpe said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Employment Office to Provide Part-Time Jobs for Students | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...England, sober dons beetled back early to Oxford and Cambridge, which announced they would open as usual for the Michaelmas term next month. Both universities expect subnormal enrollments. Cambridge began to remove the 16th Century glass from its King's College chapel. Oxford gave up some of its buildings for hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alarums and Excursions | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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