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...game, strange anomaly, provides a breathing spell. Twenty-five years of Stadium tradition are rounded out in this afternoon's Dartmouth gridiron appearance. Athletics were a casual pastime when the men from Hanover first came to Cambridge; it was that long ago. And yet, such is the effect of partial anti-climax, popular and newspaper hysteria are at an ultimate low ebb. Cadets and campaigners, Dempseys and dirigibles have harrowed the public. For the only time in recent memory, there is a possibility that the fifty few thousand who attend the game will be composed of those who actually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: InterLude | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

...corporations out on call in amounts less than $100,000. Further, they shall increase their service charge on loans made for others from 5% on the interest on the loan, to ½ of 1% of the principal. Banks anticipated protests, prepared to meet them by handing the corporations a partial recompense. Interest rates on commercial accounts were raised from 2 to 2½%, on deposits for 30 days or more from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stock Market | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...liquor taxes of Colombia, like those of Panama (see above), have been pledged along with other taxes to repay $31,665,500 lent from the Liquor Prohibiting U. S. Therefore U. S. investors were vexed, last week, with Colombians who inaugurated a regime of partial prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Good Security | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...findings of President Holt. But in comparison with grubbing study in shakkles with an instructor who firmly guides the hand of the mind, and with a twilight release which connotes glad forgetfulness of the whirring wheels, the leisured freedom in first acquirement, and the resolution and at least partial digestion of facts that come with the comprehensive answering of final examinations still give the present system a ruddy healthfulness that goes ill with President Holts proffered pall of death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORKADAY LEARNING | 6/7/1928 | See Source »

...such course reorganization is only a partial remedy; men who enter college with a good school and entrance examination record should be strongly encouraged by their Faculty Advisors to take at least one advanced course. Not only would such a course in some instances bolster a flagging academic interest, but it would in all cases serve to tie the Freshman more closely to the Sophomore and Junior years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRESHMAN YEAR | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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