Word: valid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given end. These two educations are aiming at different results and, properly enough, approve different methods. A four year college course intends to develop the student's cultural background. It may succeed only to a deplorably small extent, but that is the intention behind it, and its eminently valid excuse for existence. On the other hand, the type of education which Dean Hawkes champions concerns itself more immediately with a profession. On the ground that an attorney or business man must be fairly well informed--fairly is good enough, it seems--two years are allowed him to humanize himself; after...
Fifty more votes are needed to make the 1927 election valid, it was announced last night. The large number of ballots returned early in the week were not supplemented by many votes yesterday, and as yet the vote of 60 per cent of the class, the percentage necessary, has not been received...
Already one of the largest early votes ever cast by a Junior Class has been received, and only a few more ballots will make the election valid. The interest shown in the Junior election rivals that which marked the voting of the class of 1928 last week, when a record number of votes were cast by the Sophomores...
Significance. Here is art on a major scale. As characters, these Germans stand in their own right. As a human document, that is, emotionally, the book is unwaveringly valid. It is also a sound social contribution, bringing progress and tradition into violent conflict. Historically it is significant that Manhattan has been chronicled again by one of her stoutest-hearted inhabitants...
...marked ballots must be mailed before next Tuesday night if they are to be valid. A vote of two-thirds of the class is necessary before the election becomes official...