Word: extention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the existence of other colleges for women before Radcliffe, the collegiate education of women was regarded at the time of the college's foundation as a rather visionary proposal. The good will of the Harvard faculty had been won in 1878, to a considerable extent by the work of Miss Abby Leach, who had come to Cambridge and taken private instruction from Professors Child, Goodwin and Greenough in English, Greek and Latin respectively. Her sound scholarship (she later served as a professor at Vassar) leveled many objections to collegiate instruction of women...
Employes of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp., who are solvent to the extent of $30 or more, can become Sinclair stockholders at the $30-per-share figure (Sinclair closed last week at 38). The employes' stock plan, approved at last week's annual corporation meeting, set aside 225,000 shares of common stock, 75,000 shares of which are offered during the present year. Another 75,000 will be offered next year and the final 75,000 in 1931. These future shares will be priced at 10% less than the average Stock Exchange price for the last three months...
...week disclosed through the daily column in the New York Telegram by Colyumist Heywood Broun. The investor is, of course, Mr. Broun himself. Managing a column which is about equally divided between the controversial and the autobiographical, Mr. Broun, in one of his revelatory moments, mentioned the nature and extent of his corporate holdings. Purposely naive (as when he remarked that should his General Realty stock prove him to be his own landlord he would certainly do something about a defective window) Mr. Broun's commitments indicated no lamb, no innocent...
...cost. Of the three types of construction that have been debated for several months, the concrete could not be constructed to duplicate the material and appearance of the present horseshoe, nor would it have the potential scrap value of the steel. The salvage of the steel will to some extent compensate for the unsightly appearance that this structure will present for a few years...
...Lowell continued with remarks on the duty of educators, saying in closing, "The question is the attitude with which we send the graduates our and the extent to which we instil into youth respect for the greatness of human thought...