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...United States. From the time when a child is ready for kindergarten until and A.B., he enters a graduate school, he can pick and choose his institution, if one has not already picked and chosen him. Some may reject him, but others will welcome him. If "bad times" should diminish the number of applicants for admission to preparatory, undergraduate, and graduate schools, the competition for students would be even more resourceful and keener...
Classes which are not adaptable to the reading period and there are many such continue up to the last day before examinations, and unfortunately, due to lapses of one kind or another during the term, the assignments tend to increase in these last few days rather than diminish. Then on the first day of the examination period, according to the present schedule, some thirty courses are listed in about a dozen different departments of importance. The first answer to such a situation would seem to be that reviews should be started several weeks sooner; but if humanity were gifted with...
...table in position as well as in name, for it will be located on a platform raised above the rest of the dining room. Thus a barrier is created which, though small, will make less attractive the opportunity for students to dine at the tutors' table, and will probably diminish the number of those...
...higher a full-block building, up to 63 stories on $200-land and 75 stories on $400-land, the greater the percentage of return on investment in such a structure. The limit of profits is 10.25%. Beyond such heights, the investment returns diminish until, on $200-land, a 131-story building would return zero. A 132-story skyscraper would develop a loss...
...famed young man, Private Christian Keener Cagle of Company B, does not find that being "the greatest football halfback since Red Grange" helps him with his studies, though J. A. K. Herbert sometimes does.† But neither does his fame diminish bis popularity at the Point because, newspaper and schoolgirl illusions to the contrary notwithstanding. Christian Keener Cagle is not a domineering, fire-eating, muscle-bulging hero off the gridiron. He is quiet, retiring. He brought a drawl but not much rambunctiousness with him from Louisiana. He is not even redhaired, as legend says, nor six feet tall...