Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., October 7.--A new scale of tuition scholarship stipends and a higher minimum standard of qualification for scholarship aid has been adopted, by Yale University and will be effective this year for incoming Freshmen, and next year for all undergraduates. Under the new scale students maintaining an average grade of 85 percent or above will receive $400 for the year and those maintaining an average grade of 75 to 84 percent inclusive will receive $300 for the year, which is the full amount of the tuition...
...Daily News outlined what has been called the Mercantile Theory of Art: "In any intelligent scale of values, riches rank very low. Athens ... a greater figure in the history of mankind than Chicago or Manhattan . . . little Bethlehem, with no wealth at all, worth more than London...
...scale stands the grind, at the other the tramp athlete, and in between should be found the perfect student who seeks the Greek ideal of a vigorous mind in a beautiful body. The question that really deserves serious consideration is that of warped ideals, and not the minor influences of a manner of life which happens to include greater material comforts...
...Reisner '89, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Harvard-Boston Egyptian Expedition, for making finished scale drawings of Giza, Egypt, where his research is done, to be used in the preparation of historical material bearing on the history of Ethiopia and the cultural history of the Old Kingdom in Egypt...
...these improvements conceived on so large a scale and executed so promptly, too much praise can not be given President Lowell and the Planning Board. Not the least noteworthy of their achievements is the harmony of architectural design effected between the new buildings and the finest examples of the old. The errors of Matthews, Weld and Grays are not being repeated. And future generations will thank God that no neo-Gothic monstrosities have been introduced to mar the simple beauty of the colonial type. The expansion of Harvard's plant and equipment is rapidly becoming an accomplished fact, keeping pace...