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This number, which represents more than a three-fold increase over the spring term attendance, remains considerably below the normal peace time figure of 1200 to 1300 students, comparison with past records reveals...
From 1870 to 1940, while the general population was increasing three-fold, the enrollment of high schools was being multiplied by about ninety times as a result of the movement toward universal education begun in a few states before the middle of the last century by Horace Mann and Henry Barnard and culminating at the end of the century in free public education in every state and free secondary education in most...
...China's war effort. The main reason why his country's star continued to rise in spite of the stoppage of the flow of supplies, Pu explains, is that the Chinese Industrial Cooperative, inaugurated in Hankow in 1933 with a government grant of $5,000,000, served the three-fold purpose of maintaining army morale, stimulating civilian morale among millions of harassed refugees from occupied Chins, and mobilizing manpower, capital, and natural resources...
Describing his bureau's job, William C. Herrington, head of the branch here, said, "Our three-fold purpose is to find out the conditions of marine fisheries, to find the cause of any poor conditions we may uncover, and to develop proper remedial management means to increase and maintain good fishing yields...
...difficulties in this recommendation are three-fold. There would, the Board agreed, be a lowering of standards if General Examinations were offered both at mid-years, and at the end of the year, Also, General Examinations at mid-years would place a very heavy burden on the Faculty. In the third place, they would lead to an interruption of course work during the first half-year...