Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...colleges and universities. I do not mean to say that I exalt that dependence, that I feel that there is a great advantage in keeping boys dependent. I realize that the work of the teachers is to make boys independent of them as rapidly as possible, to withdraw themselves just as rapidly as possible from their lives, that they may stand alone and stand strong. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant thing in the secondary school to have these young chaps about you, to feel that you are their leader, and that you can influence and direct them along the right...
...Junior class should watch the results this year, and if the spread is unsuccessful again, they should withdraw it from the program of the graduation exercises...
...Columbia crew management has threatened to disband the university and freshman crews unless more men report for practice. Columbia would then be forced to withdraw from the intercollegiate regatta at Poughkeepsie and cancel the race scheduled to be rowed with the University crew on the Charles River on April...
...situation of the freshman eight is the same, Coach Rice having threatened to withdraw their entry at Poughkeepsie if more men did not report for practice on the machines. Every effort is being made by those interested in the sport to get men out, for rowing is Columbia's chief sport, and the crew's prospects in the intercollegiate regatta have been constantly improving since Mr. Rice took the position as coach...
...this point, Germany came to her senses, and a request for a conference was sent to France. France insisted on her special privileges in Morocco, which were of long standing, and in the conference which finally settled the difficulty these rights of France were recognized and Germany agreed to withdraw from her position in northern Africa...