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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Library last year, it is revealed in the annual report of R. P. Blake, director of the Library, which is to be published within the next ten days. The increase is some 20,000 below that of the previous year, when the total number of volumes passed the three million mark. The decline in the rate of increase is concentrated chiefly in the College Library itself, since the special libraries show an increase due largely to purchases of books for the Harvard-Yenching Institute. The Business School has also added nearly twice as many books this year...
Among the concerts to be given in the near future dates have been announced for the following: February 17, Weston; February 19, Exeter; February 24, Melrose; March 18, Wellesley. Concerts are also to be given in Concord. Million, and at the Harvard Club in Boston, although the dates for these could not be determined last night...
...Wall Streeter about Banker Wiggin and the pat answer will be, "He's the man with a million friends." Banker Wiggin probably is as personally popular as any man in U. S. finance. Albert Wiggin is "Al" to almost as many people as Alfred Smith. His informality, his good nature, his loyalty, his passionate concentration on golf and poker make him friends and keep them. Although his interest in etchings has long been known, few persons realized until last week what an important print collector Mr. Wiggin is. On view were 271 different works illustrating practically the entire career...
...down 3.8% from last year, Sears, Roebuck down 17.2%. But while 1932 ended with Montgomery Ward showing a smaller drop in sales for the year than its big competitor, 17.9% against 19.3%, it also ended with Sears, Roebuck's sales of $280,000,000, a round one hundred million ahead of Montgomery Ward's. President Avery is rehabilitating and reorganizing, but General Robert E. Wood, the president of Sears, Roebuck, has not had to change his tactics or his organization...
...have been the educational advances which have come from Andover in the past two decades that I can not repress the feeling that your editor failed to comment upon them only because he was unaware of them. In his mad dash for materialism Dr. Stearns turned over the first million dollars received to the raising of the salaries of the faculty. That was in 1920, Six years later he inaugurated a drive that was to bring in a million and a half. This he devoted to the establishment of ten teaching foundations (your "few teaching foundations"). The value of this...