Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurly-burly over the post war rush of American youth to the educational institutions of the country, a great deal has been said about limiting enrollment, selective admission regulations, and other machinery which would enable the universities and colleges to protect themselves from the thundering herd. Dean Gauss points out that much of this responsibility of selection might well be delegated to the parents of the potential applicant. He then goes on to show by means of very pertinent and quite informal examples of individual cases, the misfortune of social maladjustment in college resulting from the attitude of parents...
Other smaller scholarships were announced by the Corporation at the same time. The Caspar Henry Burton, Jr., scholarship, of $350, was awarded to W. M. V. Hoffman, Jr., of New York City. Hoffman received a War Degree from the University in 1920, and has attended the Law School for three years. He will now enroll in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Moscow, bared their heads in last week's chilly air and cried good wishes to a small, chunky blonde girl, who dressed in grey knickers, sat at the wheel of a smart tourist car. She, Clarenore Stinnes, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes, Germany's post-War industrial tsar, had broken a transeurasian tour at Moscow...
Unheralded, Count Rilski arrived in London, took the famed Scottish Express north. At Balmoral, Scottish home of King George† and Queen Mary, he descended from the carriage, again King Boris of Bulgaria. For the first time since the War, the British sovereigns entertained the monarch of a onetime enemy state...
Chairman Stewart was a major with the Spanish-American War Rough Riders; held a colonelcy during-long years with the South Dakota National Guard. He was in South Dakota politics before becoming Standard Oil Co. of Indiana's general attorney in 1907. He is a large man, at 61 years hale and strong, a sturdy pacer to his executives at their work. He can do so, Barron's Weekly revealed last week, by means of a trick of recuperation that he has developed. He can go to sleep at will-for minutes or hours, to wake up later...