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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Realtors in Peiping (once Peking) sat last week in doleful dumps. Not only has the Government of China removed from their city to Nanking (TIME, April 25, 1927), but Society and Business are flocking Southward too. Result: real estate values in Peiping had slumped down, last week, to one-third their conservative appraisal seven months ago, when the city was still "Peking"-a name meaning "Northern Capital." The city's new name, "Peiping," means "Northern Peace...
...direct result of Dr. Rommel's work was to get him the job of Industrial Commissioner of Savannah...
...Victor were $46,886,842, thus making the business of the merged companies about $112,000,000 annually. Plans provide for a complete merger of the two companies (not for the creation of a holding company) with a stock exchange, terms of which have not been announced. As the result of various recent mergers, Radio Corp. now controls or is affiliated with Victor Talking Machine, Radio-Keith-Orpheum (with its outlet for the Photophone) theatre chain, National Broadcasting Co. chain, Film Booking Offices, Inc., cinema producers, exhibitors...
Probably the most significant result of the whole study is the fact that there is after all not a great deal of difference between the two sets of students. All the contrasts must be made by the narrowest of margins. The outstanding fact that out of this class of eight hundred three hundred were engaged in sports at one time or another is an indication of the success of Harvard's policy of "athletics...
There is a further appeal to the intangible in the clause stating the desired "emphasis on character and fitness, and the promise of the greatest usefulness in the future as a result of a Harvard education." There is no attempt made at definition of this "usefulness." There are many who think of education not as a tool to enable them to be useful. To men who prize a Harvard education, or any education, not for its value to something to be determined later, but for the opportunity which it offers for individual growth free of curbing restraint, the phrase will...