Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After grace and handshakings President Gannon entered on his duties. With 7,300 students, Fordham has outgrown its grassy 75-acre campus in The Bronx, spilled over into four floors of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Promptly the new president announced that sprawling Fordham had finished its era of expansion, would concentrate on extracurricular activities to enrich campus life, bring students and faculty closer together. Said he: "Having a big registration is nothing to boast about. We won't add a single student to the rolls during the next six years...
...next few years will use its best efforts to keep money cheap. And this argument is used by both commercial bankers, who are buying Government bonds because they can find no other outlet for their funds, and by investment bankers, who would like to see a cheap money era prolonged because it makes for a good bond market. Long periods of cheap money are not unprecedented. For 23 years from 1886 to 1909 British Government consols, a taxable security, never sold to yield more than...
...interest shown in the Gauguin exhibit now at Fogg sets well alongside an incident reported from Dartmouth, which college has been in the throes of its own renaissance for several years now. Whatever Fogg has been to Harvard, the new-era Orozco murals on the walls of Baker Library have been to our northern contemporary, and any novel reaction to them on the part of art lovers makes lively news in Hanover...
JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MAN-Martin Delaney-Vanguard ($2.50). Case study of poverty-ridden Greenwich Villagers in the pre-New Deal era, set down by a sensitive young Irishman who strives to maintain his integrity while Catholicism, Communism and a self-centred blonde struggle for his soul...
...preparatory school will be accepted as a major factor in determining his fitness for admission. This day will undoubtedly come, and it can be safely forecast that the recent action of the Faculty Council has done much to speed the approach of that not too distant and highly desirable era...