Word: due
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delivered by President Lowell in his address at the opening of the National Educational Association convention points out several glaring defects in the present system. At present the colleges must waste valuable time in correcting the deficiencies of the graduates sent to them by the schools, and these are due to two fundamental errors in their methods...
After two weeks of inaction due to illness, J. W. Baldwin '28, star forward, returned to the regular lineup. Barbee and O'Connell starred for Harvard while Branscom scintillated for Maine...
...student council at Yale has resigned with the recommendation that student government there be abolished. The Committee of Seven of Amherst College recently resigned in a huff because the college hired a policeman to usurp their duties and because, due to the efficiency of this policeman, some Amherst and Smith students were dismissed for conduct unbecoming the quiet virtue of the Amherst campus. Even the serenity of Harvard calm has of late been ruffled by student government controversy. It is happening everywhere...
...sharp perception of Headmaster Stearns pointed a moral when he said that the Modern Schoolboy is "possibly a bit lacking in some of the more rugged qualities" due to "the fault of the modern social conditions in which he finds himself living." And Headmaster Perry seemed to sense a lack of mental ruggedness. "They have far more information but possibly less intellectual curiosity...
Federal Reserve Banks state in the February reports?Boston: "There was a further decline ... in the number of wage earners employed in identical manufacturing establishments in Massachusetts. The largest declines took place in the boot & shoe and the cotton goods industries, and were partly due to seasonal influences." Chicago: "Employment at industrial plants . . . showed an aggregate decline of 0.7%. . . . The comparatively small curtailment was the result of an upturn in the demand for iron & steel, which to a large extent counteracted the continued slowing-down in other industrial lines . . ."; San Francisco: In California, 781 firms employed 136,342 in December...