Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trust, a smaller, more compact example of the species. This was the Tri-Continental Corp. sponsored by the house of J. & W. Seligman, famed international bankers. It is capitalized at $50,000,000, has no specific field of interest. It has offered 1,000,000 shares of no par common stock at $27; a $25,000,000 issue of 6%, cumulative preferred stock with warrants...
Heflin, Klu Klux Klan, free silver, William Jennings Bryan, prohibition, woman suffrage, McNary-Haugen farm relief may all be classed as attempts at reform. They have shared in common: lofty purpose, great zeal, and not a little oratory. Senator Oscar W. Underwood was opposed to each and every one of them. He saw something dangerous in them all. He felt that their purposes were not worth their methods. He was a complete Jeffersonian, and a quiet one at that...
...tutor's part in the new system, according to Peterkin, will be his headquarters. He should reside in the House in which his tutees are living, and should strive to make these quarters as attractive as possible. It is in the tutor's rooms, and not in the common rooms, that Peterkin thinks the system will best be advanced. Certain hours each week should be given each student wherein he might talk 'shop' or hold the conference which now makes up the sole relation between tutor and student. In addi- tion to this, however, the tutor should maintain a sort...
...some time ago, when the City requested the proposed exchange. Harvard consented, and the matter was referred to the Council which submitted to Nelligan the legal aspects of the question. There is some doubt as to whether Harvard will be able to erect buildings on Holmes Place, which is common ground, originally part of the City Common...
...University is an institution of learning rather than "A finishing school for young men." Ideally, there should be the discouragement of cliques and small social whirlpools of any sort within the separate "houses", while their whole purpose would be the encouragement of intellectual endeavor as small groups with common cultural interests. As the President of the CRIMSON describes the House plan, the group must "compete with the centrifugal attractions of final clubs, activities, varsity athletics, cars, girls, Boston and New York...