Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This lecture, sponsored by the Medical School and the State Board of Health, will cover colds, pneumonia, and venereal diseases. Bishop Lawrence has long been interested in social problems of this sort and during the war he worked in conjunction with the late President Charles William Eliot '53, of Harvard, on the control of venereal disease. At that time he was President of the Massachusetts Society of Social Hygiene. Although now retired, he is still active in adapting his own war work to times of peace...
...rather definite fifteen month period in solar activity exists as exhibited by both spots and radio reception. This is one of the outstanding results of the investigation to date. Each of these sunspot sub-maxima have indicated increasing solar activity and it does not yet appear possible to state that we have reached the real maximum of the sunspot cycle until the sun peak of 1929 is reached and passed. The intensity of that peak will doubtless decide whether or not the maximum of the present sunspot cycle is reached in 1928 or 1929. Contrary to previous announcements...
...their ownership to continue, might they not teach school children that such ownership was beneficent? Here and there they might juggle a paragraph in a textbook adopted throughout the land. They might now and again send inconspicuous checks to school teachers who preached that private ownership was public weal, State ownership "Bolshevism." When the school children reached maturity and taxpaying, they would accept private ownership of public utilities as matter of course...
...hundred years ago, these three blocks were deeded by the State to Columbia University, as a source of income to support the institution. Authorities at the University grumbled. They would rather have had the privilege, often granted then to colleges, to conduct a lottery. But the years passed, the property became priceless ; and the authorities ceased to chunter, grinned instead...
...Broadway, last week absorbed two other Manhattan banks, became fifth largest of New York trust companies, acquired position among the ten largest U. S. financial institutions. The banks merged were Interstate Trust Co., formed in 1926 by onetime (1923-26) Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey and State Bank and Trust Co., headed by Harold G. Richard. Resources of the combined banks...