Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa called at the White House office with the attorney of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. He told the President that the farmers of Iowa need money badly to move their corn crop...
Other Proposals. Numerous representatives of private organizations and a few individuals were heard by the Committee. Among the most interesting witnesses were two delegations, one from Texas (home of Representative Garner, ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee), the other from Iowa (home of Chairman Green, ranking Republican). Both delegations opposed the views of the Committee members from their states. Representative Garner said he had never heard of the Texas Tax Club, which the Texans, including the Speaker of the Texas House cf Representatives, claimed to represent. The Iowa Tax Club delegation came in two special cars, and included...
...business of the conference. At the first meeting on Thursday Dean Cross of Yale will speak on "The Two Functions of the Graduate Schools"; Professor Leon B. Pickerson of Dartmouth College will talk on "The Liberal College and Vocationalism"; and Dean Carl E. Seashore of the State University of Iowa will lecture on "The Placement Examination as a means of discovering and Motivating the Future Scholar Early." Delegates at the conference will be guests at the Yale-Army game on Saturday...
Except for Massachusetts, with 137 of its residents enrolled, the distribution of students by States follows roughly the population figures, giving additional emphasis to the representative quality of the student body. New York sends 63, California 46, Ohio 45, Illinois 34, Pennsylvania 21, Iowa and Minnesota 18 each. Wisconsin 14, and Virginia...
...what is the significance. Are Harvard, Yale and Princeton, so long the leading colleges of the country, slipping from their high eminence? Will the Big Three of the future be composed, not of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, but, say, of Notre Dame, Iowa, and Colgate? Did Harvard, Yale, and Princeton build their prestige on winning football teams; and, losing must they surrender...