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...need of driving of some sort, definite educational standards are best for the majority of students; which, however, are not so rigid as to permit no leniency. In other words as far as actual practice goes, a fairly standardized system of requirement which prevents educational confusion and provides a spur, at the same time allowing exceptions in cases of special ability or needs, comes nearest to attaining the college ideal...
...submitted by students, the author would gain a kind of experience especially valuable at a certain period of development. The very fact that in the past there have emerged from the student body such dramatists as Eugene O'Neil, Edward Sheldon, Sidney Howard, George Abbott, and Phillip Barry should spur present writers, or even those who merely feel the ambition to write a play, to at least an attempt...
...love the Metropolitan Museum of Art!" said Pach last week. "My bitterest reproaches are intended to spur it on to a fuller realization of its important destiny...
...Conference composed of 29 organizations like the Y M. C. A., the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls, the Association of Community Chests & Councils, the Jewish Welfare Board. Mr. Baker and his colleagues planned to raise no funds directly but rather, with advice and suggestions, to spur local communities on toward local relief...
...make spectacular headway with their Bonus drive in Congress, the Legion's na tional executive committee at Indianapolis climbed on the legislative bandwagon, declared for the 50% loan plan. At Detroit in 1931 the Legion was all primed to ap prove full cash payment when President Hoover, on the spur of the moment, dashed to their convention, made a strong speech of dissuasion. Bonus cashing was beaten 902-to-507 on the strength of his appeal. Even as late as last April Commander Stevens was telling President Hoover that very few Legion posts wanted the Bonus...