Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is very important to the undergraduate. Future generations will accept elective systems and examinations and academic freedom with little question. Dr. Eliot is only too likely to become the subject of a reading asignment in more than one course. But no man at Harvard College can ever quite escape the legends which suround him. Emerson, and James, Agassiz and Norton, are no longer listed in the Harvard College Catalogue, but they are surprisingly significant factors in a Harvard education. Eliot is already one of these...
Response came from South America that Bolivia is willing to accept Secretary Kellogg's plan, that Chile is favorable...
Investment bankers know that there is hoarded U. S. money yearning to buy safe securities, and corporations who need to borrow are learning this situation also. Borrowers are willing to pay less interest than heretofore, while investors are willing to accept less. Thus last week Standard Oil of New Jersey through J. P. Morgan & Co. offered $120,000,000 of debenture bonds at 5%. Morgan's merely opened their books and snapped them shut, for $500,000,000 in subscriptions tumbled in. Immediately, Standard Oil of New York offered $50,000,000 debenture bonds at 4½% interest. Dillon...
...delegates to the second Annual Congress of the National Student Federation of America completed the business of the convention last Saturday when they elected new officers and voted to accept the invitation tendered by the University of Nebraska to hold the 1927 Congress in Lincoln. These events culminated the three day period of discussion, committee meetings and speeches, held in the Michigan Union at Ann Arbor, and participated in by over 300 delegates from 208 universities and colleges...
...vote of the final meeting Saturday night to accept Nebraska's bid for the 1927 Congress came only after a heated discussion from the floor on the geographic merits of the various institutions which had invited the delegates for next year. Ohio State, Iowa, Cornell, Stamford, and Mt. Holyoke representatives stated forcefully the benefits to be derived from meeting at their respective college. Nebraska because of its central location and the fact that it is at the same time a western institution received a large majority of votes...