Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard engaged this promising "radical" to direct Hemenway Gymnasium. When he relin- quished the position, 40 years later, he had furnished the country with "chest weights" and other body-building machinery, had brought Harvard's strength-index up 25%, had introduced an "anthropometric" (strength-measuring) formula now in wide use, had supervised the physical education of scores of athletes and hundreds of gymnastic teachers...
...Williamstown, Mass., a group of men gather yearly. They carry dignity in their countenances, destiny in their briefcases. They are the members of the Institute of Politics. When they talk, huge words thunder in the index ; nations rise up or crumble down ; tall Troy is burned again. Williamstown, sentinelled with maple trees, smiles at the Berkshires...
...superabundance of gold, has been watching for our commodity prices to rise under "gold inflation." Thus far, however, it has watched in vain. Indeed, according to the U. S. Department of Labor indices of wholesale prices for June, commodity prices in this country were falling instead of rising. The index weighted index number, which includes 404 commodities, fell to 144.6 for June, from 146.9 in May and 153.5 for June, 1923. It has declined steadily since February, 1924, when...
What the same index will show for the present month is, of course, conjectural at present. Farm products will be higher, of course. Yet it is obvious that the advance in grain prices is not due to "gold inflation" but to crop failures. The prophets of American inflation may ultimately be right, but so far the facts give little comfort to their theories...
...function of college very clearly, a view which one fears is shared by many another reminiscent Senior. To them it is essentially a four year long draught from the bowl of information. But information is not knowledge, and knowledge can seldom be found in an undergraduate card-index. One might say that the adjustments which a Freshman makes whether in methods of study or more subtle ways of thinking, are a vital part of that carefully supervised development for four years which constitutes college life...