Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revision of the budget of the Harvard Athletic Association assumes added importance in view of the Corporation meeting yesterday and in consideration of the generally known fact that this year's budget had overestimated the football receipts last autumn by a large sum between...
...relieved of one half of their work of instruction. It was to consist of both written and oral tests, was to be required of all college students concentrating in that division, in addition to their courses, and was to go into effect with the class entering the following autumn. Authority was also given to supplement by tutorial assistance the instruction given in the courses. Thus the complete system of a general examination and tutors was set up for all undergraduates in one division, and the one which at the time had the largest number of concentrators...
...prove to the House that the Philippines, which he visited last autumn, are ready for independence, South Carolina's Hare, H. R. 7233's sponsor, cited these personal observations: "The school is the best index to the character and intelligence of a people. . . . I was greatly impressed with the architectural design of all the school buildings. . . . They are all painted. ... I was further impressed with the lawns, flowers, shrubbery . . . the orderly arrangement of desks and chairs. . . . The furniture was not marred with pencil marks. Placards were placed high on the walls of schoolrooms. Some I noted...
...only merger of importance in 1932 occurred last autumn when, unexpectedly, Studebaker Corp. and White Motor Co. cast their lot together. A newcomer during 1933 will be Continental Motors Corp. Its markets were lost when most manufacturers began to make their own engines. When some directors warned against the company's entering the retail market Continental President William Robert Angell said, "God almighty did not give me this jaw for nothing, gentlemen...
With Depression, Yellowstone tourists have grown fewer, hotel scraps scarcer, bears hungrier. In Washington last week Director Horace Marden Albright announced that the National Park Service had been forced to kill 49 Yellowstone black bears, one grizzly during last summer and autumn...