Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series on the Graduate Schools of the University written by members of the faculty and by the graduate students. Dean Hughes' article on the Engineering School appeared recently in the Crimson; today's article by a student, A. F. Lemmon 2E.S., is supplementary to its predecessor...
...Professor Dines Out", which appears in the June "Harpers", has then a special interest as the second of a series. For this essay is but a triad of anecdotes tending to prove the thesis of its predecessor. In a word, the new professor in a provincial college receives few invitations to dinner and those he does receive lead to utter social failures. He finds the president a blusterer. When he forsakes gown to dine with town, he finds the attitude of his hosts vulgarly condescending; while dinner with a colleague proves, to say the least leaden. These, evidently...
...Excluding equity indisturbed earnings of own or controlled subsidiaries not consolidated in reports ; b) profits before taxes; c) predecessor company privately owned ; d) preferred stock ; e) profits before prior preference dividends; f) estimated ; g) quarter ended Feb. 28 ; h) third fiscal quarter ended...
...leading the first sackers with a .882 fielding average. Until his recent injury, the former Freshman star had slipped only twice in 17 attempts. Tobin who is occupying the first base berth at present has compiled an .800 average. The latter has turned in ten assists, however, whereas his predecessor's chances were entirely limited to put outs...
...indeed when the General reached Manila he soon discovered that he would be lucky if he could serve a short term without getting his foot painfully caught in the complicated traps of the island politicians. His predecessor's liberal application of the Jones Act (which promised eventual independence) had bred local corruption so crude it was almost laughable and, according to some, a state approaching governmental chaos. Characteristically, the General said nothing, but began, by long hours of toil, to change all that. A visitor noting in his library stacks of weighty tomes concerning the Islands asked when he intended...