Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...multitude of things that might be said. First of all one might mention two first rate sources of information: (1) a little book by Scholz and Hornbeck called "Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships", and (2) "The Oxford University Handbook." The latter is authoritative though unofficial--the official University Calendar, or "catalogue" as we should say, is fearfully and wonderfully made, and not to be recommended to the beginner. I see that the latest edition of the Handbook in the College Library is that of 1917, it is probably the surest available authority on Oxford matters...
...methodical reviewer will notice with satisfaction the improved quality of the paper used in the 1920-21 Register, he may comment with satisfaction on the excellence of the University Calendar, and he will not, of course, fall to congratulate the undergraduate editors on their accomplishment. In sterner mood, he will, mayhap, point out that misprints are not wholly absent, forgetting how great must have been the task of proof-reading the book. Certainly, when all else is said, he will agree that the Register is something to be owned by everyone who hopes to be an intelligent part...
...wise to accept the invitation to send representatives to the inter-collegiate conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in April. The conference is an experiment that looks good and one that very likely will prove valuable enough to be established as a permanent part of the annual academic calendar...
...will, as usual, contain a complete record of every University activity, including the various olumni organizations, the complete lists of the officers and members of over ninety clubs, lists of every team for the past year including last fall and of the University publications. There will also be a calendar and a directory of the 5000 students in the University...
...next. The fault of this is clearly demonstrated by the conditions now existing throughout the country. The year 1919 was a profitable one for all business both large and small; as a result there are large taxes to be paid, most of which fall due in the calendar year 1920. But this year has been vastly different from the last; with the acknowledged diminishing of trade have also come the decline of inventory values, receipts and profits. It is obvious that the earnings of this year have been too scanty to pay for the taxes accrued by the previous year...