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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later the temperature rose rather abruptly to a higher level and on Dec. 12 there was evidence at the extreme right base of effusion which had commenced between the lung and diaphragm. Drainage by means of a rib resection was performed on the same day under general anaesthesia-gas, oxygen and ether...
...Yale, full professors receive from $6,000 to $8,000; the Medical School salaries are somewhat higher. At the Law School certain professors make...
Andean Christ. After Santiago, the itinerary called for a special train to Santa Rosa de Los Andes (Chile), whence the narrow gauge Transandine Railway climbs up to burrow through the Cumbre tunnel at an altitude of 10,452 feet. Half a mile higher, on a ridge in the oldtime Cumbre pass, stands "Christ of the Andes," the peace statue which Chile and Argentine cast from their cannon after Edward VII of England arbitrated their last quarrel in 1902. "Peace to all nations" says that statue's pedestal...
What caused the collapse? The immediate inciting force appears to have been "tight" money. Loans to brokers had advanced to $5,394,590,000. Call money had climbed higher and higher until it reached 12%. At this point, apparently, the market, so long inflated, suddenly realized its unsound condition. Once the decline had begun, there was nothing to stop it. Indeed, as it continued, forced selling by many small operators with dwindling margins accelerated its fall...
...list through Wednesday, January 2. 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. The notice appearing on Friday, December 14, that this latter privilege did not extend to Freshmen was the result of an office error...