Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated on reliable authority that No. 1 experts will recommend the French to take a mortgage on the German railway system which, it was estimated, can produce a net profit of 800,000,000 gold marks per annum. It will also be recommended that France relinquish her hold on the Ruhr, that Germany be granted a moratorium for cash payments. On the other hand, the experts were reported to have decided that Germany can pay about $1,125,000,000 annually after three years, that she must levy higher taxation, that a gold bank must be established. They found Germany...
...undergraduate paper to attempt to recommend what those changes should be would be presumptuous. But within its province does lie the suggesting of issues and the expression of opinion looking towards a system which will meet, in the best spirit of education and democracy the problems which await the colleges within the next generation. Such suggestions and opinions can, however, be of permanent value if offered as parts of one consistent scheme. To follow a figure formerly used, planks can be of real value only if serving as part of a structure, or of at least a scaffolding. Some such...
...book of fact?or so the publishers claim it to be?that is as romantic as fiction. It is impossible to give away the plot, because there is nothing that could really be called a plot. But there are plenty of interesting adventures and extraordinary characters and one can recommend this story (which begins in an oculist's office with a pair of near-sighted eyes) to anybody?which means everybody?who has ever cherished a secret ambition to become a hobo...
What method the Committee will recommend for limitation is, in its particulars, difficult to surmise. What its chief characteristic will be is perhaps fore-shadowed by the report, which flatly states that "the main consideration must always be the educational one." In other words, in limiting the size of its enrolment. Harvard will be consistently considered not as an asylum for amateur billiard players, a refuge for refractory aristocrats or an agency of the Parents League, but as an educational institution, existing primarily for those who seek an education. And with this settled the problem of the method of limitation...
...plans for an indoor exercise building is the selection of a suitable site. The logical location for such a plant would be between Massachusetts avenue and the Freshman dormitories. With funds available to cover the cost of a modern swimming pool, it would seem to be in order to recommend such construction as soon as a satisfactory site can be provided. A swimming pool could be so constructed that it would become a definite unit of the proposed indoor exercise building when funds become available for that purpose...