Word: adventism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Excerpts: "In the year of my advent upon these scenes, the annus mirabilis 1880, they took but $78,094,687 for flogging the elements into 15,065,767 pupils, which worked out to but little more than $5 per capita per annum. ... In 1914. the year of fate, there were 26,002,153 boys and girls in the schools, and making them fit for democracy cost $555,077,146 . . . four times as much as in 1880. . . . But then the pedagogues began to fall upon the taxpayer in real earnest, and presently they had him down and were turning his pockets...
...Herr Hitler's friends; the fact that ex-Kaiser Wilhelm's fourth Son Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm is a Nazi; and the fact that Germany's new Cabinet is so full of "safeguards," sufficiently explained last week the equanimity with which best posted observers greeted the advent of Chancellor Hitler...
...offshoot of the German Sing-Song that has been held in Lowell House Tower Room for the last three years. There has been no German Club in the University for 15 years, and Hawkes hopes to further the interest in the language which was started with the advent of the Sing-Song. The club will hold two meetings monthly, on the first and third Wednesday's with the first one immediately after the Mid-Year examinations...
...apparent that the roading periods will not be given a fair trial until the advent of THE COLLEGE PLAN. A successful tutorial system, offering definite guidance to the individual can make this new institution a valuable factor in the curriculum, but a successful tutorial system itself demands more instructors and advisers. Sufficient indication of this requisite is given at the present. Many instructors are obliged to resort to testing the student on reading period preparation, not being able to devote to every man the time necessary for discussion of essay work in that particular field. Yale News
...several years our winning class teams have played the winning class teams at Yale. With the advent of the House it seemed wise to discontinue class athletics, and this past year the winning House teams have competed against the winning Class teams at Yale. Within the next few years Yale will abolish class athletics, after which time we hope to have our winning House teams compete against the winning College teams at Yale...