Word: crop
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...kept supplied with food, munitions and all the materials essential to our common success. To accomplish this, serious transportation problems by land and water must be solved. One of the most serious problems confronting us is the threatened shortage of foodstuffs. Owing to the failure of the winter wheat crop, one-third of which is ruined, we probably will not even be able to raise the six and one-half bushels of wheat per capita which the people of the United States consume annually. To meet the emergency, every effort must be made to stimulate production, avoid waste, and better...
...second-year students in the Graduate School of Business Administration, will be due this year Wednesday, April 25. Through the generosity of Mr. Harry Hodgson, of Athens, Ga., this annual prize of $25 is given for the best thesis on some business subject. "The Value of Fertilizers in Increasing Crop Production" has been selected as the subject for the essays, but students may write upon "The Marketing of Cotton-Seed Products (oil or cotton-seed meal)," if they so choose...
...greatest service. Thus Technology, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Columbia, and the great laboratories in numerous other universities are open to the Government scientists to make such experiments as they wish; thus the Massachusetts Agricultural College is organizing the farmers of the state in order that the coming food crop will be the maximum in size; other institutions are giving special courses in military medicine; the Tufts wireless station is offered as a central wireless station for New England; the students at Smith, Wellesley and Mount Holyoke are engaged in Red Cross work; and Western Reserve has already formed an ambulance...
...great crop of athletes and students which will be sent to the University next fall from the leading preparatory schools of the country, and a comparison with the number entering Yale and Princeton from the same institutions is shown in the table below. As regards the number of Seniors who plan to enter with the class of 1920, the University is in the lead, with Yale a close second, and Princeton a poor third. In the total of letter men the lead is marked more strongly. Nearly twice as many expect to come to the University as are going...
...University the complete expression of undergraduate opinion, whatever form that opinion might take. In addition, the petition presented to the Faculty concerning the establishment of a student council, brought up the important mission it would have in helping the Athletic Committee in eradicating any of the evils that might crop out in the conduct of athletics...