Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American college graduate is a dying race. They are producing only two children per family. If America depends for its college students upon the descendants of the present graduates within a few generations our colleges will be empty. Either that or we will have to Lower the requirements for entrance. A thousand Harvard graduates at the present birth-rate will be represented at the end of six by only 50 descendants--hardly enough to make a good lee club. But at the present birth-rate 1000 of some of the lower sections of the population will be represented...
...matter of fact, the U. S. has been refunding its original 4 1/4% debt at lower interest and has prospects of avoiding most, if not all, of this loss...
Such friendly sentiments toward the U. S. evoked a chorus of disapproval in the Lower House of the Diet. Representative Nakamura in- terpellated Foreign Minister Shidehara with reference to U. S. Naval maneuvers in the Pacific...
...year ago the business men of the Square tried to get the legislature to pass a bill abolishing it as a menace to traffic. The problem was studied by Chief Engineer Henry W. Hayes, and the results of his investigation embodied in a bill introduced in the lower house by Representative Arthur F. Blanchard '04 of Cambridge. His bill, providing for a reduction in size of the present structure, was referred to the committee on street railways, where it has remained for over a year. The Boston Elevated Railway has steadily opposed the change, even going...
Over a year ago the whole matter came up before a lower court, which appointed a Master, Frederick D. Field to investigate the case. Mr. Field who was Instructor in the Graduate School of Business Administration, held several hearings and his report, recently submitted, generally upholds the validity of the union...