Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chandler. No. 1 man for the graduate school team, has twice been a member of the Davis Cup squad. This spring he practised for a while as a member of the squad at Atlanta, Georgia, at the beginning of the season, but was forced to return on account of scholastic duties...
...During the last 18 months more and more (now about 100) A. & P. stores have opened fresh meat departments. They are perhaps Armour & Co.'s greatest customers. On that account when a group of Chicago and Manhattan bankers and brokers a fortnight ago bought 1,000,000 Armour & Co. shares, Wall Street gossip said that A. & P. would get the shares. This was denied...
...choice of competitors until the examination has been taken. In other words, the ten best papers in each college would be compared, rather than the papers of ten men who may not necessarily represent the best the college has to offer. The chance to turn scholastic attainment to account for the glory of the college would thus be determined by the examinations themselves; the possibility of winning recognition would be open to all students taking the examinations; and the features of an intercollegiate sport contest would be practically eliminated. And not of least importance each college would be satisfied that...
...wisdom of this policy is seen in the fact that for the first time a freshman class finished the year without any of its members being required to withdraw on account of low scholastic standing...
There will be no chapel services tomorrow morning on account of the holiday...