Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reports submitted by other committees of the Associated Harvard Clubs and published in the current issue of the University Alumni Bulletin recommended that a scholarship be established at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, which was John Harvard's almamater, in memory of Lionel de Jersey '15, who was killed in action at Arras in 1917 while serving as first lieutenant and acting captain in the Grenadier Guards: that the committee which is raising $250,000 to endow five professorships at Berea College, Kentucky, in memory of Professor N. S. Shaler '62, the great Harvard geologist, be continued for another year...
...necessary to caution business men against overoptimism. Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank, Manhattan, recognizes present prosperity, but warns against the dangers of rising costs produced by over-swift expansion. Much the same position was taken by the U. S. Department of Commerce in a recent bulletin. In the case of the stock market, J. L. Livermore, noted operator, is more pessimistic. He points out the large amounts of undigested securities now on the market...
...campaign against diabetes mellitus continues unabated, and new light on its treatment is revealed with surprising frequency. Why the disease is engaging the attention of so many medical men may be surmised from some figures just published in the Statistical Bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. The general tendency of diabetes mortality has been upward for fully 20 years. Since 1919 the rise has been still faster. The highest death-rates are found in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, the lowest in the southern and western states, largely because Negroes are less susceptible than whites, while Jews...
...bulletin board has been maintained for posting notices of activities at Cambridge in which our men are interested...
...great significance to the common fear of coming inflation is a table of stocks of basic commodities as of January 1,1923, in the bulletin of the New York Reserve Bank. Compared with January 1, 1922, much smaller stocks were reported of anthracite and bituminous coal, cement, brick, wood pulp, skins, leather, cotton, lamb. Larger stocks were reported in crude petroleum, kerosene, gasoline, beef, pork. Until stocks of commodities generally increase, it may be concluded that consumption is keeping pace with production, and that in consequence inflation is not yet upon...