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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chemical students at Harvard are equipped this fall for the first time with a first rate building and adequate apparatus. Harvard men at last are able to say that their facilities for scientific investigation approximate in excellence their opportunities for the study of the humanities. It would be well to determine, however, if these facilities may by some means be made as available to the undergraduate as are such institutions for instance as the Widener Library. The iron bound regulations of Boylston Hall in regard to closing hours have for years been an inconvenience and in many cases a downright...
Teamed with Barrett on the first eleven at present is F. A. Clark '29, another veteran. If Clark can succeed in putting his 200 pounds or so to their full advantage, he will develop into a really first-rate tackle. His chief trouble in the past has not been lack of ruggedness or his aggressiveness, but in a certain awkwardness which has prevented him from utilizing his full powers...
Call money for transactions on the New York Stock Exchange reached 9% one day last week. That enticed vast new sums for loaning and retarded trading. Less trading caused less demand for the horde of money. So the call rate dropped the next day to 8%, to 7 1/2%. That in turn gave traders a chance to make money on stock deals. They scrambled. When the day was over they had swapped more than 4,700,000 shares. Motors and oils were popular. Someone bought $6,000,000 of General Motors stock in a single deal. There were other large...
...been suggested that the slow rate of payment this year is a result of lack of understanding on the part of the Freshmen and Sophmore classes of the purposes and advantages of the Budget system. This information is printed on the pledge cards which were included in all registration envelopes. The list of beneficiaries of the Budget and the itemized plan of proposed expenditure of the money collected are also printed on these cards...
...fancy for square jewels; he bought for her an emerald both square and huge. Typical of him is the fact that when he first asked Mr. Hearst for the American Weekly advertising job he pulled out a fist-full of advertising contracts already signed and at a higher rate. He got the job. He is also the man who nourished the straw hat industry. He suggested (and carried on a campaign through the Hearst papers) that men begin wearing straw hats 15 days earlier in the season. So successful was he that the present U. S. consumption of straw hats...