Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroad carrying power, and provided for a transition period of six months in which the railroads could put their properties and organizations on a normal operating basis, while the Government continued its war-time guarantee of net income equal to that of the average of the three years prior to the war. During this transition period the railroads presented their petitions to the Interstate Commerce Commission, asking for rate increases, which would insure the net return of 6 percent on property value contemplated by the Transportation Act, and the Commission granted the increases with but little change...
...added to the curriculum, and it became more and more necessary for students applying for admission to have additional college training. In 1900 a bachelor's degree was first required of all students entering upon the study of medicine at Harvard, although the majority of the matriculants offered degrees prior to this. This standard has not been changed, except that since 1900 students who have had a least two years of work in an approved college and who at the same time have maintained a high scholastic standing may be admitted...
...science requirements have been gradually increased to keep pace with the advancement in medical sciences and to enable the student to approach the subjects of the medical curriculum with an elementary knowledge of scientific terminology and of scientific methods. Prior to this the Medical School found it necessary to include even in the second year of the two-year course, subjects which are now recognized as general scientific premedical subjects. Thus for the year 1864-1865 the course of study in the second year included the elements of botany and a course in zoology. At the present time all applicants...
...another very large mill in the same line near Cologne we did not get beyond the office, but found that the best that could be done on a machine on which we asked a proposal was nine months on account of prior orders. The chief owner of this mill, together with his brother who spoke English, spent the day with us, and took us to two writing-paper mills where their machinery could be Seen. Here also we were treated with the utmost courtesy...
...Princeton the membership of the governing body combines the elements of popular election, ex-officio membership, and self-perpetuation. The President of the Senior class is the only ex-officio member; seven men are elected by the Senior class (eight if the president of the class prior to his election to office shall have already been elected to the council); and seven men are elected to the council by the members of the outgoing council and those already elected to the new council sitting together. In the University on the other hand the men on the Student Council are chosen...