Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is always a great economic need for fresh capital, and just now the work of supplying enterprise with needed money, by reason of post-war conditions, take on new importance. We are the largest house of our kind in America, handling only the cleanest, high-grade financial investment. The sale capacity of the house runs into million annually. It has twenty-two branch offices and plans to expand to a total of seventy-five branches. We have forty thousand clients. Our aim is to increate this to one hundred thousand within a year. The last enterprise handled...
...current annual report, President Meiklejohn of Amherst College makes some interesting suggestions as to the desirability of general examinations for undergraduates. One great shortcoming of the American educational system, as most educators now admit, is the practice of awarding degrees on the basis of examinations in individual courses. Each branch of the curriculum thus becomes a sort of watertight compartment and the student too often fails to perceive its relation to any other branch. Harvard, some years ago, set out to correct this situation so far as her own students are concerned by establishing a general examination in connection with...
...French and English industry is in a dangerously low condition. Particularly France will need aid for many years. Neither can it be denied that the United States was engaged in war only long enough to give her industry a hearty boom. To be sure this country has amassed a great debt and submitted to heavy taxation; yet its condition is more prosperous than in 1914. However America placed no limit upon her resources when she joined her Allies. Every penny of the nation's wealth was thrown upon the altar; that it was not sacrificed as the wealth of other...
Although the time made by the first crews in today's trials was a great improvement over the rather poor record of 22 minutes, 17 seconds made yesterday, Coach Haines was still dissatisfied, with the form shown by the University and Freshman oarsmen in the starts. After completing the four-mile course, and short time was spent in practising starts...
...course it is true that great actions are not accomplished by a middle course. But the function of a periodical is not acts, but an intelligent discussion of acts. It must interpret the news, and to do so adequately it should not be swayed by passion. The present attitude of the "New Republic" is like that of the little boy who refuses to play because he has not received his full share of the pie, and is correspondingly useless. An attitude like that of "Harvey's Weekly", on the other hand, which indiscriminately damns all acts of President Wilson just...