Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resumed on Friday, January 3, 1930. Every student, not on the Dean's List, is required to attend his last College exercise before and his first College exercise after the Christmas recess. By a recent vote of the Administrative Board, students, including Freshmen, whose November records average B or higher may, upon obtaining permission from their respective Assistant Deans, be allowed Dean's List privileges in regard to the extension of the Christmas recess...
...rank and file of Harvard students can hardly be expected to concur with this view and suspicion has already been aroused against what seems to be an artificially imposed British cast to the plans for Lowell House. The difference in social habits and the aims of higher education existing in the two countries precludes the possibility of any wholesale grafting of England's educational system upon that of the United States. Undoubtedly there are some features of the English system which may be useful in an American College, but just what these are can be more soundly determined...
...fight in the Senate for higher tariff rates for Pennsylvania's wares. Thwarted by the Progressive Republican-Democratic coalition, he testily predicted the Tariff Bill's death. He is ever active to lower surtax rates on large incomes, to reduce the corporation tax. In general his fiscal policy is identical with that of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, his great and good friend, whom he has repeatedly defended against attacks by Senators Couzens of Michigan and Walsh of Montana...
Pleased was Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde to be able to report to President Hoover a "gradual improvement" in husbandry. Farm incomes ($12,527,000,000) were higher than in the last three years. The decline in land values had been retarded. Fewer husbandmen were quitting their acres for the city. Some 1929 farm facts...
Wheat. "792,000,000 bushels . . . 902,000,000 in 1928. . . . Wheat prices have been substantially higher...