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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago the English Department held a margin of 124 students over the next largest field, Economics. Last year the lead had fallen to 35. Now English has been superseded, there being 23 more concentrators in Economics than in this division of the field of Modern Languages. Economics now counts 417 members against 394 for English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Increase in Honors Candidacy Reported by Faculty Committee | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

...combined field of History, Government and Economics is by far the largest in the College, with 775 members of the three upper classes enroled. It has shown a gradual though steady gain since 1926. Below the divisions of Economics and English ranks as the third largest field History, with 233 concentrators. The combined field of Modern Languages, containing the Romance Languages, German and English, numbers 634 men, a decided drop from its 1926 total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Increase in Honors Candidacy Reported by Faculty Committee | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

Among other large fields showing gains over the previous year, the departments of History and Literature, the Fine Arts and Bio-Chemical Sciences, are outstanding. Fine Arts has risen from the tenth to the sixth largest field in two years. Government, Mathematics, Philosophy, Psychology and the Romance Languages all show losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Increase in Honors Candidacy Reported by Faculty Committee | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

...totals for the last three years are 56, 197 and 203 respectively. Last year's figure is the largest for any one year since 1914, when the Burean was founded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/21/1928 | See Source »

Many magnificent and historic individual gems still survive. Black, Starr & Frost has an emerald presumably from the Russian Crown collection. Tiffany recently acquired a ruby considered the finest it ever owned. Last week, Queen Mary of England attended the opening of Parliament wearing the Cullinan diamond, largest in the world, estimated to be worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Superlatives Exhausted | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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