Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basic patent taken out in 1887 by of Thomas Alva Edison, primarily in that the spiral sound-recording lines incised upon the records have a uniform depth and zig-zag laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank at the other. On the drum...
...surplus and undivided profits) of $115,000,000 were less than those of some British banks year will approximate 48,250,000 tons against 45,393,000 tons last year. Great Britian produced 7,797,000 tons last year, but will produce less than half that in 1926 on account of the coal strike. Germany also is dropping
...account of the Yard exercises which appeared in the CRIMSON the next morning follows in part: The press of the crowd was so great that the combined efforts of the college police and a detachment of Cambridge patrolmen were necessary to keep it within the required bound. And it was only with the greatest difficulty that they succeeded in opening a passageway through the crowd for the cars of President Eliot and his following...
...life and work, emphasizing his influence on the education of the country at large. During the last two years his influence, as well as President Eliot's leadership in the moulding of opinion on questions of public importance, has continued unabated. I venture to close this meager account of Mr. Eliot's life by quoting the paragraphs written for the CRIMSON two years...
...probably achieved more substantial results for the institution he served than any man in a similar position in the history of this country; but his influence has been far wider in its scope than the university, even when the influence of Harvard graduates and Harvard teachers is taken into account. President Eliot has been in a true sense an educational leader for the nation. The educational policies he introduced into Harvard College have been taken up not only by other collegiate institutions, but also by the schools and he has had a profound influence through his direct leadership in school...