Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watts have switched positions several times with apparently little difference as a result while Swaim has yet to be tried out against him. The later is now rowing at No. 2 in the first boat and C. McK. Norton '29, who formerly rowed in this seat, is at six. F. A. Clark '29 is still at No. 4 in the first boat where he has been for the past week...
Limitation of funds is handicapping the research work of the school, but some interesting problems are being worked out by undergraduates. Professor Percy R. Howe is continuing his work in nutrition and has developed a purified diet for animals which may be of considerable importance later on. Dr. Howe has been given an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Bates College for his researches in this field
Another ruling affecting graduate students in this department of the University was announced at the same time. It was voted that "All Divisions and Departments shall submit to the Committee on Instruction for approval, not later than two months in advance, any proposal to substitute some other form of test for the mid-year or final examination in courses under their jurisdiction, and the decision of the Committee on Instruction shall be final...
...paying off its national debt at the rate of a billion dollars a year, and "in 15 years there may remain no Federal securities for the Reserve bank to purchase or lend upon." Open-market paper, too, has been "shrinking rapidly." Thus the Federal Reserve would sooner or later be forced to rediscount security collateral loans for lack of other loans upon which to exercise its rediscount facilities. It would have to accept stock market collateral or else find itself of small importance and usefulness. Mr. Simmons did not believe that a conservative, careful system of rediscounting security loans would...
...Thomas J. Mooncy and Warren K. Billings, trade-unionists, were accused and convicted of murder after a bomb which killed ten, had been thrown into a San Francisco "Preparedness" parade. Later evidence seemed to prove them not guilty. Their judge and nine of their ten living jurors have since declared them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken...