Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York and Boston banks to raise their rates recently," continued Professor Sprague. "I am inclined to think that there may be another advance because the present rates are still below market rates. The rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York should be as high as the minimum rate on loans in the New York market. Such an advance would not check business activity but would restrain somewhat undue expansion of an inflated nature...
...good theatrical reporter reports the plot and restricts himself to a minimum of personal opinion. The plot therefore is this: after an open chorus in which the male members of the cast who are obliged to impersonate females go through what is probably the most unpleasant ordeal of their lives, it develops that J. McK. Kimball is a hotel clerk, and not so very good either. To his hotel come a nouveau riche family from the frequently-pulverized Middle West, accompanied by a "French maid". Let us explain the character: the exterior finish is by Vivaudou, Inc., the housing...
This caused a large amount of opposition by those who believed the minimum requirement to be too low and not designed to bring from a student the best work of which he was capable. Because of the varied beliefs among the undergraduates, it seems improbable that any radical change will be made, but that the situation will be remedied by a gradual extension of Honors courses, which are open only to students of high standing and offer a definite stimulus for the attaining of creditable grades...
...more. Especially striking is the large proportion, 70 per cent, of Classical men who are candidates for Distinction in their field. This proportion seems to show that men who have chosen Classics as their subject find it of such interest that they wish to do more than satisfy the minimum requirement. Comparatively few of these men intend to become teachers. Many of them give as their reason for their plan of study the fact that Classical students must necessarily deal with a large range of human interests as varied as literature and the fine arts, philosophy and religion, history...
...International Students Tours have been established as a non-commercial undertaking for the purpose of enabling American college students and instructors to travel in foreign countries at minimum cost, and under conditions which permit a close contact with the people and institutions of the countries visited. These tours represent merely a new application of the program which the Institute of International Education has been carrying out for many years in the direction of a closer international understanding through educational opportunities a program which in the past has been characterized by such activities as international exchange professorships and scholarships, the exchange...