Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hall had its share in educating men. Many have debated just what men get from college. That they get pleasant memories everyone agrees. And if amid those memories the pictures of lecture room and class room are less distinct than memories of personalities and groups, that is human nature. Memorial Hall provided a memory. Many thousands look back to it, see its long aisle again in their mind's eye, and feel thankful for the memory...
...much an insight into ways of thinking and methods of reasoning, not so much a background of culture, as a training in 'leadership,' 'citizenship' and 'character.' This may be a desirable thing at the present point of development of the United States, but it is something quite distinct from the European conception of a university...
...absence of conclusive industrial news, the statements of the Federal Reserve Banks have been closely scrutinized to see what was going on in the money market. Recent statements show a distinct change in Reserve policy. Holdings by Reserve Banks of Government paper are allowed to run out, while their Treasury Bills are similarly declining. On the other hand, member banks are discounting trade bills and paper; and in this way the official rediscount rate is again becoming "effective." This move may or may not presage higher interest rates generally, but it puts the Reserve in a stronger position to check...
...arrangement the book is sane and lends itself admirably to supplying any desired information about student affairs. A distinct and happy innovation is noticeable in the club list, which is now arranged alphabetically and not by the character of the individual club. Athletics are treated more than adequately and the directory of dormitories is of incalculable worth. Whereas in the past, the directory of students has been divided into graduate and undergraduate groups, this year there is one directory of members of the University and an index of college activities of undergraduates...
...year has been unusually favorable to mail-order houses. Sales of Montgomery Ward & Co. to Nov. 30 were $142,570,298-over 19% above sales for the same eleven months of 1923. Sears, Roebuck & Co. showed distinct though less sensational improvement; its sales for eleven months ending Nov. 30 were only $1,260,078 over the same period in 1923-less than 1%. Yet its sales for November this year exceeded those of last year by $2,071,441, or over...