Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although several causes contribute to this cosmopolitanism, that which has had the most effect is probably the Business School which since its creation has drawn men from other colleges and universities all over the country. This, with the Law School has come to be a truly national character. And Harvard College is progressing in the same direction, under the stimulus of the "higher seventh" entrance method, a system especially calculated to attract men from western and southern high schools...
...railway brotherhoods last week entered a third field of finance. For several years now they have operated successfully as commercial bankers. Last February they organized American Home Builders Inc., to finance house construction at low rates. (Here they compete with savings & loan societies.) Last week's creation was the Continental Bank, at Cleveland, to lend money to workers upon personal securities. Although Continental Bank and similar personal loan banks to be set up over the country with railway brotherhood financing will to some extent compete with the various Morris Plan Banks,* their chief aim is to undermine loan sharks...
Italian Financing Credit Consortium for Public Works, the institution created by order of the Italian Government to finance Italian shipbuilding, tried to borrow $12,000,000 in Manhattan last week, and simultaneously $8,000,000 in London. The Italian Government is now considering the creation of a stock company, under patronage of the Export Institute, to give commercial credits to exporters of Italian goods...
Professor Sargent, who was born in Boston in 1841, died Tuesday at his home in Brookline following an illness of two weeks. He was in charge of the Arnold Arboretum since its creation and perhaps the most prominent American in the field of Arboriculture and Forestry...
...during the campaign against Mobile. Following his honorable discharge at the end of the war, he turned his attention to horticulture and arboreal pursuits, identifying himself with Harvard, where he was Professor of Horticulture and then a Director of the Botanic Garden, holding the latter position until after the creation of the Arnold Arboretum...