Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creator of American Commonwealths and its mainspring was Frank Theodore Hulswit. He was born in Grand Rapids 56 years ago, the son of a local merchant. His great-grandfather was Jan Hulswit (1766-1822), famed Dutch painter. In 1904 Frank Hulswit and Ralph Child formed the investment firm of Child-Hulswit & Co. which was dissolved in 1912. In 1910 Mr. Hulswit organized United Light & Railways Co., the nucleus of United Light & Power Co. In 1926 he was reputed to be worth $12,000,000. That year there was a great break in public utility stocks. United dropped from...
...methods of marking, with the object of directing the energy of the students toward those forms of effort that will be for them of the most permanent value; for, as in every other part of the University, the objective should be less acquiring familiarity with technical processes than a firm command of principles. The selection of the best candidates for admission is no simple matter; and in doing it college records alone do not suffice. So far as possible the men are personally seen. In fact members of the staff interviewed seventy-one per cent of the applicants, visiting eighty...
...usual high table dinner in Lowell House last night C. A. Coolidge '81, member of the Boston firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott, architects of all the Houses except Adams House and of many other University buildings, presented two pairs of three-branched silver candelabra to Lowell House...
Last week the following were news: Lloyd Waddell Smith, 61, resigned as board chairman of Chase Harris Forbes Corp. to the surprise of Wall Street. Admitted to the bar after graduation from Harvard Law School he never practiced but entered the old Chicago firm of N. W. Harris & Co. in 1899. He stayed on after the company became Harris, Forbes & Co. in 1911. He was made board chairman in 1923, held the same position after Harris, Forbes was consolidated with Chase Securities Corp. last year. Many a farmer boy has become a Manhattan banker. Banker Smith will reverse the process...
...does not seem probable that better students go to college in periods of business inactivity, nor is it any more likely that instruction is improved. But bad times make anyone more serious and diligent, and firmness of purpose at a formative stage of character can have far-reaching consequences. Regardless of what pursuit the graduate takes up, he will find that more than customary application is needed; if he is to advance or even held his position. The chances are, too, that the firm that employs him will not be of the type that flourishes only in speculative booms...