Word: newely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Through the energetic work of solicitors in cities and towns outside of Boston and New York, the Harvard Endowment Fund passed the $9,000,000 mark yesterday. The fact that these favorable reports have been coming in from the outside districts lately is not surprising, in view of the fact that of the 26,000 alumni still to be heard from financially, 20,000 reside outside of the two principal cities. As a result of yesterday's efforts the following totals were announced last night: Boston, $3,614,704; New York, $3,275,808; outside districts, $2,170,811; grand...
...very probable," said Mr. Charles C. Lane, Director of the University Press, "that at the close of the present printers' strike in New York, the strikers will find that many of the publishers employing them will have adopted the new method of printing introduced by the Literary Digest. The rapid improvement which each new issue of the Digest shows, and the comparative cheapness of the process, makes this seem likely...
...new process is quite simple. The copy is carefully typewritten, then the typewritten sheet is photographed onto a sensitized plate. Treatment of the zinc plate in an acid bath eats away the metal around the impression of the letters, leaving them projecting from the surface. The plate, or cut, has then only to be locked in the form...
Formerly two Rhodes scholars were elected every year from each state, thus giving Nevada, with a population of 114,000, as large a representation as New York. The new rules provide that when no candidate is of sufficiently high quality, none shall be chosen. Although the present choices were not made under the new ruling, the change indicates a tendency which may lead to further amendments to remedy the present unequal representation...
Under the new system, the qualifying examinations, which were based on the English public school system, have been eliminated. Instead, men are now chosen on their American educational records--both academic and social--and their personality...