Word: central
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly no room for additional structures in the Yard, and the few plots available immediately to the north have the double disadvantage of inaccessibility and of opposition to the projected growth of the college towards the south. The alternative of erecting a group of buildings suitable for class purposes central to the group of dormitories to be installed near the river-and leaving the Yard to the exclusive use of the Freshmen has the advantage of helping to unify both these groups. But the distance factor enters in again and would serve to make it impossible for those taking science...
...choice of the officials of the meet has fallen on New York not because it is the largest city in the country, but principally because it is central for the competing colleges. A games at the score sheet of last Saturday's meet will reveal how many entrants come from the New York district or farther south. To ask the hundreds of athletes from distant colleges to make the journey to Boston would be an imposition on coaches and teams. Harvard and Boston have become famous for their athletic hospitality; they must be careful that hospitality does not become greed...
Able, thorough-going (when he took up golf six years ago, he broke 80 during his first season) Mr. Pelley has had many a knotty problem as Central of Georgia president. During 1927, gross revenue of the Central of Georgia decreased about $4,000,000 or 13.15%. There was a disturbing drop of 25% in passenger business and an even more disturbing drop of 10% in freight business. Both passenger and freight revenue continued to fall during 1928, although their decline was not so precipitate. No fault of Mr. Pelley's however, was this unfortunate situation. It resulted chiefly from...
...Pelley is succeeded in the Central of Georgia by Albert Earl Clift, senior vice president of the Illinois Central...
...from the New York Times for articles signed by him and duty-pay from the Missouri National Guard in which he is a colonel. For flying from Long Island to Paris he received $25,000 from Hotelman Raymond Orteig of Philadelphia ; for his Good Will flight over Mexico and Central America, $25,000 from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation...