Word: parred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although I arrived at Harvard multas par gentes et multa par acquora rectus, and although I shall have much to say in these articles about things with chronological claims to priority, Harvard was the focal point of my wanderings, the other end of the straight line from Cambridge from which my other excursions were divergences. Let us then start at Harvard...
...Department of English shys away from Public Speaking much as it would from a mad dog, locking up the rude intruder in an academic cellar along with a bone or two. Since to the scholars of literature oral English is not quite respectable and nowheres near par with the other sides of the language, the arrangements for courses in speaking are farcical, tending to discourage the students. The three half courses, for only one of which is credit given, are the minimum the Department thinks it can establish without starting an open revolt. Professor Packard has built the nucleus...
They have defeated Rindge Tech 8-1; but Rindge had had almost no practice, and the 7-1 victory over a good Belmont Hill team wasn't half as impressive as it sounds. Handicapped by a weak goalie, the schoolboy six was otherwise about on a par with Hodder's men following the opening period. Although they are scheduled to meet Andover and Exeter this week, no real test will be forthcoming, for Belmont Hill is probably as good as any prep school team this year, and not until late in February when they oppose St. Paul's and Dartmouth...
...strong showing made by the Crimson in their Lake Placid encounters with Clarkson Tech have placed them on equal par with the Green icemen who have also trounced their first three opponents...
Recovery, however, came by no means too late. Last summer Phoenix Securities' Groves helped put through a dazzling recapitalization plan which substituted 382,300 shares of $1 par common stock for 382,300 shares outstanding at a declared value of $15 a share, eliminated back dividends amounting to $52.50 a share on 63,004 shares of preferred, erased sinking fund arrears of some $882,000. Meanwhile Certainteed began to nose slowly upward on the building wave, made a profit of $131,000 for the third quarter. To accelerate this rise by putting Montgomery Ward efficiency into Certainteed will...