Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent issue one of your correspondents girded at the Bryant pup and at Boston bulls in general. He suggested that the Sealyham pup be substituted for the beautiful bull and asserted that bulls were unfashionable...
...River flood control plans last week prompted President Hoover to hold up construction contracts pending further legal surveys by his Secretary of War and Attorney General. Con-troversy was renewed over flowage rights across river lands...
...Another prohibition announcement of last week came from Pierre Samuel Du Pont, retired board chairman of Mr. Ford's competitor, General Motors Corp. Mr. du Pont denied that Prosperity was due to prohibition, claimed the automobile, the radio, had replaced the saloon for recreation. Said he: "The iniquities of the saloon itself have been largely overdrawn. . . . The workingman gets all the spirituous liquor he wants at probably not a greatly increased price...
...examine the complete records of all applicants for readmission and will demand of candidates the strongest assurance of future success. The passing of an approved course in the Harvard Summer School with an honor grade (A or B) may be considered as a reasonable basis for readmission and in general is regarded by the Administrative Board as the most satisfactory evidence of work done. The Harvard Summer School opens on July 8, 1929. In special cases steady employment of a different nature may be approved...
...Bachelor's degree stand for high grade of work, and secondly to awaken student interest in scholarship for its own sake. He has, for instance, modernized the choice of studies, broadened the entrance requirements, built up student interest in Honor degrees and, perhaps most interesting of all, introduced the "general examinations" which are the hub on which Harvard now turns scholastically. The "reading period" at Harvard, an offshoot of the "general examinations" has now come to stay as a useful innovation: it apparently allows for just that leisure to turn around that the average student needs before he comes...