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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand Harvard graduates at the present birth rate will be represented at the end of six generations by only 50 descendants--hardly' enough to make a good glee club," was the startling statement of Mr. A. E. Wiggam of New York City, a biologist and author who addressed the members of the National Civic Federation yesterday afternoon on the subject, "What is Civilisation Doing to Mankind...
...average man or woman, however, does not consume quite so much as a full soldier's ration per year, so that we might make a rough estimate, that the country could support 190,000,000 people with our present living standards. This would mean, of course, that the present rate of production would be increased to the European standard...
...which the U. S. Government is paying on the same debt, 3) which the British would have paid at the original 5 % rate of interest: Interest...
...during the American Revolution. As a matter of fact, the United States paid every dollar of the debt incurred at that time. I have the statement of the facts and figures furnished me by the Treasury Department, where the records are, disclosing a full settle- ment and a higher rate of interest than we are now proposing...
...rate let us hope that Harvard will not be so selfish as to let Memorial Hall remain unused, or even to use it herself, but let us hope it will be devoted to some noble cause quite outside the harness academic circle. John Reed Walden...