Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subject to the settlement of a few remaining points of difference that still separate the German and Allied delegates, the Reparations Conference has finally arrived, after weeks of discussion, at an agreement over the total amount of Germany's war debt. The figures represent a triumph for the German stand that is best appreciated by comparing the $8,800,000,000 new decided upon as the total due with the $21,000,000,000 that was fixed at the London conference of 1921. Evidently in their anxiety at seeing their prospects dwindle with every consideration of the problem, the creditor...
...good conditions for the Freshmen, carried through the athletic and other student interests, and came to a climax in the House Plan, which Edward S. Harkness, '97, has just made possible. In scholarship at Harvard President Lowell has held clear ideas, first to make the Harvard Bachelor's degree stand for high grade of work, and secondly to awaken student interest in scholarship for its own sake. He has, for instance, modernized the choice of studies, broadened the entrance requirements, built up student interest in Honor degrees and, perhaps most interesting of all, introduced the "general examinations" which...
When Dean Briggs of Harvard became Radcliffe's president in 1903 Radcliffe's resources consisted of three buildings and money for a fourth and funds, including scholarships, of less than $500,000. He immediately addressed himself to the financial needs. First came a library; then a dormitory to stand next to Bertram Hall in the new quadrangle on Shepard Street. By 1908 these were built and in use; by 1914 two other dormitories were built and occupied. After the war Dean Briggs undertook to add $1,000,000 to the college endowment, and at his last commencement as president...
Pending the full blaze of the Golden Jubilee, retrospective minds returned to years between the first spark of Edisonian genius and the visible glow of its social application. Between laboratory and layman stand innumerable middlemen, not the least important of whom are usually a few bankers. Inventor Edison at 35 was by no means financially ignorant. He understood that money, though social rather than "natural," is a force not unlike electricity, with sources and laws of its own. A respecter of such forces, he turned to financial experts in 1882, when it was time to incorporate the first Edison Electric...
...Logan, Ohio, Judge Harley M. Whitcraft suspended Warren Canan's one year sentence for perjury on the witness stand when Canan promised to read every Sunday for two years the commandment "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor...