Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...providing for an increase in diplomatic salaries is one which most thoughtful citizens will deplore. Our present scale of salaries is woefully inadequate, the compensation in the higher grades averaging about one-third of that paid by other powers. Under such circumstances it is not strange that most persons find themselves unable to accept important positions; and partly as a result of this, no less than fifteen of our diplomatic posts are at present vacant, at a time when our interests urgently demand representatives of the highest order...
...hard to see, however, how the new school can fulfill the hopes of its founders unless it raise the standard of and the interest in the teaching profession. The country will always be able to find plenty of poor teachers and ordinary teachers. But of good teachers, men and women who have really studied their subject, such as we hope to turn out here, there have never been nearly enough. The need for leaders in the field of education now is greater than it ever has been. And so to the serious-minded undergraduates we appeal at least to consider...
Both Dr. Withington and Coach Fisher point out the fact that stalling could not be eliminated in this way. A clever quarterback could find plenty of way of delaying, either by purposely running the ball to the side of the field or by purposely touching the ball to the ground, to call it a down...
...scheme would not prevent stalling, because a clever quarterback could find plenty of ways of using up plays. And, aside from this, I maintain that stalling is perfectly legitimate. The Harvard and Yale teams have always practised it, as well as the best teams in the country...
There is not the least aspect of isolation or self-sacrifice to this life. We are having excellent times, and are quite as comfortable as we would be in America. I cannot praise the personnel too highly; it was very gratifying to find the American community so congenial. It will not be out of place to remark that I haven't found a single person who has come from sentimental reasons. This college at least is completely free from "missionary zeal...