Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voting power in trust to an outsider, and resigning his board chairmanship of the C. & O. Thus, unless the ICC found some legal barrier, Young would be out of the C. & O. and free to use I.D.S. to buy up to 10% of Central stock, thereby strengthening a controlling interest he could exercise...
...mean, it did illustrate how his Alleghany Corp. has been expanding into other fields and greener pastures. Since early 1948, Alleghany had sold more than $17 million of its railroad holdings, because Young was bearish on their earnings' future. Among the sales: Alleghany's entire common-stock interest in Seaboard Air Line Railroad and most of its holdings in Central of Georgia and Florida East Coast Railway Co. (all roads where Young could not get control). Alleghany also plans to sell its holdings of 225,000 shares of Rock Island common stock, and get out of that road...
Wadsworth, who had been out of town for some years before his inauguration in 1725, remarked the valedictory exercises with interest. "I was Informed also that ye President & Fellows should sit with their Hats on when Valedictories are pronounced," he wrote. Early in the senior year, apparently, the Class got together to pick someone to deliver the valedictory. By 1750, there had been added more class officers, a dinner, and a sermon, as well as the Latin oration. In 1743, at an election meeting, several seniors were "found guilty of drinking prohibited Liquors," and were fined...
...entrance to the parish church in Class Day mornings. The most belligerent freshman could find no excuse for a rush and everything is quiet and orderly." But there was a general flagging of spirits that year, for the reporter continued sadly to note that "it is evident that the interest in Class Day is slowly dying out, and that either something must be done to renew it or we shall seen see the annual festival collapse altogether...
...proposal is fine as far as it goes. But the Faculty should not wait the full three years before it considers broadening the plan. There is no reason why concentrators in the other Humanities and the Social Sciences should be excluded from foreign study if they have some particular interest in going to Europe and if suitable courses are available abroad...