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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apiece of real money, theoretically. The market-players last week announced "profits" and "losses" taken, to date. The total profits were $14,000; losses $660, with plungers "selling short" and conservatives "holding on like grim death" during the recent wild days in Wall street (see BUSINESS). Biggest profits went to Helen Levine of New Rochelle, N. Y., with $3,000. Biggest loser was not announced. Parents applauded Professor Smith's sane device for educating "a woman and her money...
About 150,000 classroom teachers and school superintendents constitute the membership of the National Education Association. There is an annual meeting in July, when a goodly portion of them swarm into the biggest hall of the city lucky enough to have been named "convention city" the year before. It is a great vacation junket as well as a grave pedagogical palaver, a great time of speechmaking, report-reading, handshaking and theorizing...
...would be the biggest break for Harvard rowing in recent years," said Coach Stevens when asked about the measure yesterday afternoon. "It will enable us to have a good two-mile course, and an upstream Henley, course, which will be sheltered enough to row over at any time. It will also allow us to compare our crews with other American crews, which is impossible at present because we race over an odd distance...
...half years of existence, it has held fourteen meetings with attendances ranging from a minimum of forty to a usual audience of about sixty and an extraordinary maximum of four hundred brought out by the football debate last fall. It has thrived best on college subjects. The biggest and most ardent audiences were attracted by the topics of football and military training...
...number of crews racing on the Charles in the biggest regatta of the spring was increased to four last night when M.I.T. announced that its crew would be a contestant. This entry makes it certain that the Navy, Cornell, and M.I.T. eights will pull against the University oarsmen...