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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although this is a new record for the University, Harvard College is slightly behind in numbers so far enrolled. A total of 3165 men have so far registered in the College. Of this total the Freshmen led in number enrolled with nine hundred and ninety-one. The Sophomores stand second with eight hundred and forty-six students. Six hundred and ninety-four are enrolled in the Junior class, while the Seniors number five hundred and sixty-two. This year there are seventy-two out of course students. In addition, forty-four special students registered in the College...
...have one magazine with full sails and a taut sheet-rope. THE SOUTHWICK Co. New York City Sirs: It takes some courage to limit the size of your publication. CLARENCE R. LINDNER San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, Cal. Sirs: It takes considerable courage, I imagine, to take such a stand, but as a reader and advertiser appreciate your policy and hope you will benefit by it. W. S. BASINGER Passenger Traffic Mgr. Union Pacific System Omaha, Neb. Sirs: In the opinion of Mr. Lillibridge, such a move is a "noble experiment." HENRY ECKHARDT Executive Vice President Ray D. Lillibridge...
These words had hardly rebounded from the Heaviside Layer when Jouette Shouse, Quarter-Master-General of the Democratic Army, seized the microphone and cried: "We have heard from self-appointed in- terpreters, who continue to assert that Mr. Hoover will not stand for a wholesale tariff raid. But what sort of chief executive is it who would permit his own Congress to make a larcenous hash of its whole session...
Muddle & Stalemate. Though superficially plausible the Hughes stand won over no Nationalist M. P. except Yachtsman Marks. Only the fact that the Government was balanced on a single vote made possible a debacle which throws before Australian voters an issue mixed and muddled as completely as possible by Parliament. The one clean-cut way out would be a sweeping victory for the chief Opposition party (Labor), but few observers believed that possible, last week, because recent state elections have heavily favored the Nationalists. Gloomily, Australians faced the post-election prospect of another Nationalist Government stalemated by the feud between Hughes...
From the outset, therefore, we had no doubts as to the purpose and possibility of this professional school. It should seek to train business executives and be satisfied with nothing less. Otherwise it forfeits its right to stand on the same level with the older professional schools. Its graduates must of course, start in the lower ranks and many may never reach the highest commands. Over their heads will often pass, though perhaps less frequently in the future, gritty, gifted men from the lowest ranks. A progressive society must follow Napoleon's maxim of "careers open to talent." But accumulating...