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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that one or two of the drought-resistant Harvard types are occasionally slightly lower in sucrose than that of the best Cristalina fields, but this is compensated for by a higher yield in tonnage, on the poor, shallow soils, where Cristalina will not grow at all satisfactorily...
...elementary knowledge was stimulating and broadening, while the man who passed the reading requirement in a language was generally fitted to use that language in his further college work. Some of the men who held this general opinion advocated the raising of the reading knowledge requirement to a higher standard as well as the retention of the present elementary requirement. A some-what larger number were in favor of dropping one language from the requirements and concentrating attention on the other. Many of these looked back with little pleasure on an elementary French or German course in their Freshman year...
...plans for the work and report to the President, who will pass on the final plan. The conflicts centre chiefly on the size and cost of floodways on the Boeuf River in Arkansas and Louisiana and the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana; and on raising present levees a third foot higher...
Within two days ten billion francs ($400,000,000) of new money flowed in; and six billion francs in other government securities were exchanged for the new issue. Since this latter process-"consolidation" of previous higher interest bearing securities into the new loan-was the end chiefly sought by Prime Minister Poincaré, he announced on the second day of scrambling that no further cash subscriptions would be accepted, but welcomed further conversion which continued steadily all week...
...number entering last fall. Due partly to the added facilities at the Business School plant, and partly to the increased number of college graduates who will be admitted as first year students next fall the total enrollment at the present time for next year's class is 16 percent higher than it was a year ago at this time...