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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the language requirement of a "reading knowledge" of French, German, or Latin, may hereafter be met by certain grades in various courses has been voted by the Faculty and will take effect immediately. This change, embodied in a recommendation from the Committee on Instruction with Reference to the Administration of the Language Requirements was passed by the Faculty on February 15 and announced for the first time last night...
When several undergraduates last spring were invited to be present at and participate in the deliberations of the Overseers of Harvard University, the step was greeted in Boston newspapers under large headlines as a startling innovation. When on Sunday of this week, four students met with a committee of the Overseers to discuss problems connected with Harvard College, the daily press ignored it. There could be no better proof that what was an innovation has become a precedent...
...Rothschild, "once sent to me in England £600,000 in a single packet by post ($2,916,000)." So long as their mother Frau Gudula Rothschild lived, the five sons came from the ends of Europe to discuss with her and with one another every large transaction. They met in the very house with the rothes schild?but, shrewd, they had it painted green to stop the puns of passersby...
Thereafter, during their meetings, doctors rode up and down Palmer House elevators without let. Attendants who padded outside the hotel's Red Lacquer Room where the doctors met, might have been scandalized by the medical damnation that sounded through the doors. They knew that some of the conferring doctors were famed?Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Stanford University, Dr. William James Mayo, of Rochester, Minn. They did not know that the emphatic doctors were enjoying themselves, giving a sound thrashing to other members of their profession. The doctors knew that their advice was good; they knew too that...
...arises in the peculiar genius of Mr. Ford. No one can anticipate his processes."-Waddill Catchings of Goldman Sachs & Co. Said Paul M. Clay, vice president of Moody Investment Service: "I'd rather buy genius than material." The Billion. In 1916, Partner John W. Prentiss of Hornblower & Weeks met Henry Ford in Detroit. Said Mr. Ford: "Oh, you are one of those Wall Street guys." Mr. Prentiss offered him a half billion dollars for his concern. Mr. Ford laughed at him. In 1924 Mr. Prentiss offered Edsel Ford a billion dollars. Edsel Ford refused him. In 1925 were repeated...