Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beaverbrook suffered another severe personal loss when Lady Beaverbrook, the handsome daughter of a Halifax army general, died after 21 years of happy married life. Thereafter the routine job of being a newspaper publisher became almost as boring as money grubbing. One day "the Beaver" locked his office and announced: "I am leaving the Daily Express and never coming back. You young fellows must carry on. Make it a great newspaper...
...safer and more logical argument for Dartmouth's loss, therefore, would seem to be that the Big Green is not one of the east's top teams today. A good early season team, and a flashy and "break" outfit, the Blaikmen of 1938 are not by any means in a class with Cornell (who beat them), Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh, Holy Cross, or Villanova. Right here at home we have the obvious fact that now the Harvard which won its last four games and the earlier Harvard which lost only by a touchdown to Dartmouth are two very different elevens indeed...
...giving a more thorough eye examination, and educating drivers to consider their physical defects the Institute with the cooperation of state authorities hopes to cut down loss of life in the entire country...
President Seymour also envisaged a reduction of the present Yale requirement of five courses per year. "There is little beyond tradition to put forward in favor of a five-course system. The history of four-course and three-course plans in other institutions indicates no loss in educational values and a decided gain in the quality of undergraduate work", Dr. Seymour wrote...
Eight million dollars is a lot of money, even when one is concerned with figures running up into hundreds of millions, and the huge loss which is shown on the books in the annual Treasurer's Report to the Overseers may cause uninformed persons undue alarm. However, the simple facts, when divorced from their monetary terminology, reveal that Harvard, despite this book loss, is actually as financially solid as it has been in the past. In brief, some millions of dollars were added to the book valuation of the University shortly after the late-lamented boom. Its investments were apparently...