Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen hundred Cornell seats within the goal lines will go on sale tomorrow morning at the H.A.A. office. The ducats are really Cornell seats, for the number represents the amount returned from Ithaca after the Big Red boys had all they wanted. Nearly 500 of the seats are within the 20-yard stripes...
...statistics to back up his premise that marks are a very accurate criterion of success after college. Life is one great competition, he implies, and he who can organize his forces best at an examination at college will do the same afterward. This ignores the difference in the amount of time each student spends studying, for as long as grades in exams tend to vary according to the amount memorized and hence the time spent, it is the hard worker, not the man with initiative, who will rank best. Yet the grind is not the most apt to succeed...
...Chief corporate holders were banks with $20,916,000,000 (41 %) followed by life insurance companies, with $5,840,000,000 (11%), some 50% more than the amount they held...
Comparative freedom in the matter of selecting courses and beginning concentration in the Freshman year was granted in 1934. The word gradually got around to Freshman advisers with results that this year amount to a crisis. The regimentation that previously compelled Yardlings to take several courses they cared nothing about has been swept away. Instead ambitious Freshmen come out of the hills and waste no time in getting to grips with the subject of their choice. Courses in French literature or musical appreciation have no appeal for young men bent on becoming engineers or economists and not realizing that many...
...study of the relative distribution of stars gives an indication of the total amount of obscuring material, assuming a uniformity in the distribution of stars in a given region...