Word: processes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spring of 1913, the Law School Library made another purchase, that of the Dunn Collection, comparable in importance to that of the Olivart Collection in the previous year. The process of the merging of the libraries of the Harvard Divinity School and of the Andover Theological Seminary continues. It is much to be desired that the libraries of Harvard College and Andover-Harvard shall arrive at some agreement as to the transfer of books between them and as to the division of fields in future purchases...
...appears on the surface. It means that if you do not get your card signed and handed in by Saturday of this week there will be a great deal of trouble on Monday, February ninth. In view of the rush that always happens in the fall when the same process is being carried out, let us attend to it in time to avoid trouble...
...develop his own personality as he will, without help or hindrance. If he has unusual ability he finds many opportunities for development, and at the same time finds a stimulating fellowship of kindred spirits who, though often few in number, have found themselves thrown together by a selective process...
...Mitchell, in the second and concluding lecture on "Business Cycles" last evening, took up his subject at the point of liquidation and traced the steps of business change through the crisis and back to the period of revival, the starting point in the first talk. The process of liquidation lasts about six weeks, at the end of which the cumulation of inactivity, marked by a falling off of physical volume of trade and lower prices, causes the factories to go on short time and to shut down. There is a general fall in prices and profits, and a cumulation...
...small wastes. Then there is an increase in long time borrowing, closely followed by a rise of interest and a complaint of tight capital. This in turn leads to a reluctance to make further investments and an increase of demands for short time loans. The last step before the process of liquidation is reached when prospective profits, really the collateral of credit, begin to decrease and there is great danger that the great structure of credit will topple...