Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student body toward a national survey of such an unprofitable and tabloid nature. The majority of Harvard men can safely be exempted from any interest in the classification and further glorification of a phase of American college life which has flourished in direct proportion to the undesirable amount of publicity it has received from press and film...
...Harvard plan is a compromise between the two. When completely carried out, it will naturally have a grave effect not only upon whatever clubs exist at Harvard but upon University athletics and all University extra-curriculum activities. A new inter-house athletic system and certainly a good amount of inter-house rivalry in other departments will come to take their place, or at any rate be added to them. Inter-class distinctions will be lessened; and there will be a closer contact with the Instructors and tutors who live in the new Houses. The individual will receive more attention...
Another significant factor brought out by the records of the last 25 years is that since 1913 although the total of sales and the number of members has tripled, the amount of dividends paid to members has increased fivefold. This fact, shows that members are realizing more on their investment each year...
...colleges make use of the methods and instruments of big business, but the most apprehensive could scarcely object to the plan just announced by President Angell of Yale. This is an arrangement for the group insurance of the faculty, administrative and other staffs of the college to the amount of $5,000,000, part of the premiums to be paid by the university and part, after the first month, by the beneficiaries...
...question can fairly rise, in the light of practical experience thus far, as to the ability of the German budget to provide the full amount of its standard contributions under the Dawes Plan...