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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athletic Association has made arrangements with the Weld Golf Club, whereby for a period of three weeks, it may issue to members of all departments of the University, tickets entitling the holder to play eighteen holes on the Weld course. These tickets are limited to 100 a day. The cost will be $1.50 per ticket, and they will be on sale at the H. A. A. and at Leavitt and Peirce...
...organized a $67,000,000 company to build tunnels under Chicago to carry freight underground to the stores; they lost. He controlled the Kansas City Railway & Light Co.; it went bankrupt. In 1920 bankers saved Armour & Co. from bankruptcy by reorganizing it at J. Ogden Armour's chief cost. In 1923 he was the chief owner of Chicago bank stocks; he had to sell $5,000,000 in stocks to cover a $20,000,000 loan. The receivership of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway has cost him a million. But his saddest loss was the forced sale...
...shingles made of sawdust failed to burn them. They were shingles belonging to Dr. Paul G. Von Hildebrandt, German-American chemist, with a formula for impregnating a sawdust composition against rain, wear, flame. He can, he says, make fireproof bricks, tiles, sheets, at far less than the present cost of cement and metal. Angling for capital, he promised that the ingredients for his process could all be obtained plentifully within U. S. borders; that he would turn mounds of sawdust into mounds of golddust...
...York State insane asylums last year, the percentage of new cases was less for women than for men, because-the State Department of Mental Hygiene discovered last week-insane women live younger than do insane men. New York State asylums contain approximately 44,500 inmates. Last year their upkeep cost...
...addition to the College publications that Harvard now has there were, in 1892, several others. "The Harvard Daily News," published by under graduate editors, together with one representative from the Law School and one from Radcliffe College, cost $2.50 a year. A literary magazine, the "Harvard Monthly", was edited by men from the two upper classes. The "Harvard Index", issued annually, contained a directory and record of the social and athletic life of the University. The "Harvard Portfolio," an illustrated record "containing pictures of the Senior Class, College teams, etc.", was issued annually. "Portraits of the Harvard Faculty" was also...