Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a system already in successful operation, the various house committees would do well to begin revision of their own methods along these lines. House funds undeniably play a large and growing part in the efficient workings of the house system, and a united front in this respect would do much to alleviate the confusion and uncertainty which is so prevalent today...
...until 1908 did the Gideons begin to make their name famed by putting free Bibles in hotels and hospitals. Since then Bible-giving has become their one big job. They have given away 1,300,000 at an average cost of $1, today boast that sooner or later they find donations to fulfill all requests with neat volumes now bound in whiskey-proof keratol. Until last week all three founders were still active in business and Gideon affairs. Then Death came to Samuel Eugene Hill, 70, in Beloit, Wis. To the funeral went Insurance Man Knights, 83, of Wild Rose...
...France in 1871, by which time "Nonni" had discovered a vocation for the priesthood. He studied at a Jesuit college in Amiens, there entered the Jesuit novitiate, was packed off by his superiors to Germany to teach Latin, history, modern languages. Not until he was 56 did "Nonni" Svensson begin writing books about himself, but after that he wrote copiously: four volumes alone concerning his childhood, twelve altogether, which have sold 6,000,000 copies in 30 languages...
Whether the Foundation will begin a probe similar to the one which created such a storm when it appeared in 1929, will be decided by an executive committee which includes Frank A. Vanderlip, Thomas W. Lamont '92, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, William A. Nielson, President of Smith College, Dr. Joseph H. Penniman, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and others...
With the college football season drawing to its close the spectre of professionalism will soon stalk across the national scene again, if officials of the Carnegie Foundation carry out the request of the National Association of State Universities and begin another investigation of college athletics...