Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the standard of exemption from English A of students entering the College has been raised five points. Last year, with the abolition of the anticipatory examinations which had been in force previously, a new system was adopted whereby a mark of 70 per cent or better in his College entrance examinations would excuse a student from his usual Freshman English requirement. For the coming year the work will have to be 75 per cent to procure the student's exemption...
...reason for the change from the 70 to 75 per cent basis of selection, is due according to the English Department, to the fact that by making 70 per cent the standard, almost half of the class was excused from English A, many men who should have taken the course being exempted...
...Extending the admissions exemption (at present, 75-cent tickets or cheaper are exempt) to $1 admissions...
...Repealing the tax on sales of produce; reducing the stamp tax on capital stock transactions from two to one cent...
Later in the week the Dutch guilder became worth 40.45 cents, a fourth of a cent above its par value (40.20 cents). The difference made gold worth shipping to Holland, and Manhattan bankers hastened to load $4,000,000 in gold on the S. S. Veendam, just as she was at the point of departing from Manhattan. The shipment was the first to Holland since before...