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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total personnel of the University this year is 8317 while last year's figure was 8110. There are 3202 undergraduates. Distribution by classes is as follows: 568 Seniors, 705 Juniors, 367 Sophomores, 987 Freshmen, and 85 Out-of-Course students. Of the Graduate Schools the Law School is the largest with 1639 students while the Business School ranks second with 1011 students. Princeton sent the largest contingent to the Law School supplying 102 and Dartmouth is second on the list with 89 representatives. Of students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dartmouth sent the greatest number, 29, while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGURES SHOW UNIVERSITY ENROLMENT HAS INCREASED | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

After fire, filaments. Last week, General Electric Co. of New York let a million-peso contract ($450,000) for the immediate construction at Monterrey of the largest electric lamp bulb factory in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Gas Whoopee | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Second largest offer ever made for a horse-$600,000 by the Aga Khan in 1926 to Sir James Rutherford, Scotch distiller, for Solarie, Ascot cup winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Reigh Count | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...post-office in Algonac, Mich., sits Chris Smith, chewing tobacco, swapping stories with his small-town cronies, whittling small models of boats. He is founder, and his son Jay is president of the largest mahogany motorboat company in the U. S.* Last week Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co. had cheering news for President Hoover and his industrial conferees: the company had just received the first order in the history of the industry for a solid trainload of motorboats. Fifteen carloads of Chris-Craft boats, with a factory list value of $115,000, were ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chris the Whittler | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Universities of Madrid and Barcelona are by far the largest in Spain today", he continued, "having replaced Salamanca which flourished alone in the days of the Moors. The students naturally flock to the capital, Madrid, and to the largest commercial center, Barcelona, the result being that only 400 students occupy the tremendous and ancient buildings at Salamanca. One of the most remarkable things about these Spanish Universities is that it is only within the last few years that they have started to teach modern languages. Tied up, as they have been, with tradition, they have taught Arabic, Greek, and Latin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEERS DISCUSSES FOREIGN SCHOOLS | 12/10/1929 | See Source »

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