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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party's convention, Mr. Coolidge summoned the business organization of the government, sang the swansong of a prudent housekeeper. Something less than a paean, his main theme was in a major key: "I have rejoiced in keeping down the budget. Since July 1, 1921, debt reduction amounts to $6,327,000,000 ... a saving in interest of $950,000,000. . . . The tide of the good fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present time the number...
...current. In the U. S. only three companies-Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power Corp. System, the Commonwealth Edison Co. and the New York Edison Co. System-surpassed it. The Tokyo company serves 11,395 sq. mi. across the most populous and highly developed midsection of Nippon, Japan's main island. In the territory are Tokyo (population 2,000,000) where the imperial government sits, Yokohama the seaport, and a great hinterland of rice fields, silkworm farms and river industries. Along Tokyo bay are shipyards, steel & iron foundries, factories for making textiles, paper, chemicals, machinery, pottery, cement, rayon. What coal those...
...auditorium of the new theatre will seat 660 persons, while the balcony and boxes will care for 240 more. The building will comprise three main parts the entrance with a foyer hall and Triangle Club offices and clubrooms, the auditorium, and the back stage theatrical workshop. The architecture of the interior will be of the Elizabethan period, while the exterior will harmonize with the older buildings on the campus...
...difference in preparation between Yale and Harvard for an intercollegiate examination is simply the difference between two distinct attitudes toward the purpose of the last two years of college. At Harvard more emphasis is put upon a thorough comprehensive knowledge of one's main field of study, with other field occupying an ancillary position. The Harvard system devotes two years to an intensive study of a selected field in the belief that the-finest education is obtained by that man who at the end of four years has a detailed knowledge of one extensive field and a broad conception...
...allowed to concentrate at Yale during their last two years, because they are regarded by the college as already possessing the background essential before specialization can be undertaken, successfully. But the requirements for a major are so slight that the average man can scarcely be said to have a main field of study on which he focuses. The Yale system rests on the premise that for the average undergraduate specialization in college narrows him unduly, and prevents him from attaining a broad cultural background. It is the purpose of a college such as Yale to utilize the four years...