Word: columbia
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Because most States have different laws restricting truck sizes, interstate truckers are as hampered as railroads would be if each State required different gauge tracks. Last week in Columbia, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decided that South Carolina's limitations (example: goin, width, though most States allow 96-in.) were an "unreasonable burden" upon truck commerce insofar as hard-surfaced main roads were concerned, granted truckers a permanent injunction against them...
President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia, said in part. "The new step forward in the administration of higher education--just announced by the College Entrance Examination Board is highly significant. Few mattes are of more significance at the moment than the selection of those students who on grounds of fitness and personality are to be preferred in choosing those for whom the college can make provision...
Presidents Angell, Dodds, and Butler of Yale, Princeton, and Columbia issued statements last night expressing their complete agreement with and confidence in the new examinations which all Freshmen scholarship applicants at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia will have to take, starting this spring...
Taking a definite step forward in the educational field, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia will require all candidates for Freshman scholarships to take modern scholastic aptitude and scholastic achievement tests, starting this spring...
This new plan, it is believed, was suggested by Harvard in the first instance. Other Colleges are invited to use the service provided, and besides Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania will be use the exams this spring...