Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confidence of the founders of the fund. The break with a familiar mode of life and abrupt transplantation into one with different customs and language is a handicap not overcome without both ability and earnestness. Both of these the emigrants have shown themselves to have in no small amount, and the country of their adoption is the gainer for the addition of such a group of productive workers to her ranks. As is the case with most persecutions, Soviet Russia has secured outward some degree of conformity to its tenets only at the price of parting with some...
...suggests to its victim preferable methods of preparing the subject at hand. An examination late in December is a thinly disguised but supposedly necessary turnstile to force men to supply themselves with credentials before they enter the Reading Period. Those who have been there before, and know the amount of required or suggested study that fetters the period should be little inclined to let course work overlap. But if in the light of human nature this examination is inescapable; and if in the light of educational tradition its November predecessor is desirable: such allowable conservatism still does not make...
...Harvard Student Council Budget Committee reports that between 14 and $15,000 have been pledged to the Council fund, a sum greater than the amount pledged in any previous year. The Student Council Fund is a welfare federation of Harvard University, substituting a single collection for the many drives for money previously made. The Salvation Army and the Red Cross, as well as the several class funds, the Phillips Brooks House, and the Student Council, share in the money collected by the Council. The Budget Committee requests that the unpaid pledges made at the time of registration, and which...
...takes a longer period when the yacht is U. S. designed and German built. The cost of building a yacht in Germany is 50% to 33% less than in the U. S., but there is a 30% tax on foreign-built yachts. U. S. architects are giving an increasing amount of business to U. S. shipyards because they have demonstrated their ability to build yachts more luxurious and equally as sturdy as German-built craft...
Competitors in this last test for Juniors and Sophomores will be graded on a point basis according to the amount of work done and accepted. During the first week the duties will be light while the new men are familiarized with the fundamentals of journalistic work. Because of this, lack of experience does not prove a handicap at the start of the competition...