Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because he feels that he can spare only a small sum. One dollar from a man who can afford no more is just as welcome as $100 from a man who can afford that. The first principle of the Harvard Fund is that all Harvard alumni shall have a share...
...worthy bachelors is the axis of the evening. Two worthy young women marry the bachelors in the end and the twins are disposed of to their Irish father in Denver. There bustles through the entertainment a fussy and magnificently maidenly sister of one of the bachelors, to whose share falls much of the comedy. This part, played by Laura Hope Crews, was easily the most eventful. Ernest Truex did pretty well as the more cowardly of the adoptive bachelors...
...place, no opponent was named, but Dempsey committed himself to encounter either of the two logical challengers-Gene Tunney or Harry Wills-and Rickard indicated that either his New Madison Square Garden or some New Jersey arena would be the site. The date: "in September." Dempsey's share: $450,000 (reported). Mr. Dempsey departed to train at Hendersonville, N. C., wistfully announcing that he would probably retire as champion after this next bout; that he would then like to "get into some successful business...
...endowment fund. The income is the university's one-eighth royalty on the output of the Group 1 Oil Company, organized three years ago to drill on land that the university chanced to own. Last week the company's directors declared three monthly dividends of $250 a share on the 2,048 shares outstanding, which, when paid, will bring the total dividend for the year ending in July to $2,415 a share. Last year Texas soil yielded 3,726,000 barrels of oil to grease the wheels of higher education in Texas...
...fact, Yale for the last six years has been headed in the direction of educational mass-production. In 1920 the alumni presented their reorginization scheme, which destroyed much of the individuality of the two colleges, Academic and Sheffield Scientific School, by compelling students entering either school to share a "common freshman year...