Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intelligent people have made the most of an apparently unfavor- able environment, utilizing what scant materials are at hand to make their lives fairly comfortable in a most inhospitable region; the Bedawins of Arabia to show how a desert environment has led them to adopt a pastoral, nomadic form of existence and has shaped many of their beliefs and customs; and the Polynesians and the Melanesians, to show how their environment has stimulated them in the art of navigation. The policy of this series will be not to insist on the compulsory character of environment, but rather on its suggestive...
Prohibition. New York's Legislature ratified the 18th Amendment in 1919. In 1926, the people of New York modified the sustaining act. Governor Smith flayed those politicians who had prevented a referendum on the Amendment in the first place. Of the future he said: "Under our form of government and guided by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States [declaring national Prohibition binding upon States], the question . . . is removed from the States and is focused upon the national legislature at Washington. Gradually our people are beginning to realize that there and only there can any change...
Although the first-year men can not sign up for skating as a regular form of exercise, they may cut the sport they have signed up for on days when the weather permits and they prefer ice activities. This project was introduced as an experiment four years ago but had been dropped since then on account of the poor weather...
...fencing squad has been chosen by Coach J. L. Danguy, following an elimination tournament among all Freshmen taking the sport. A fencing glove has been presented by Coach Danguy to S. S. Morrill '31 for the best fencing form in the meet. H. B. Wesselman '31 was the runner up for the trophy award...
Commercial and investment banking attracted the largest number of students, drawing 61 men from the finishing class. Manufacturing came next, 26 graduates having chosen this field of industry in which to work. Chain and department stores were third in the list, with a total of 19 men selecting this form of occupation as their work. Teaching as a profession was fourth in popularity among the graduates, 12 men having accepted positions as instructors in the various Business Schools throughout the country. Ten students elected to enter some branch of the army and navy, nine have not been heard from since...