Word: takings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Former President Coolidge will take part in the first educational talking picture to be produced in the United States, when the University Film Foundation starts shooting scenes for its "History of Massachusetts" tomorrow...
...change has been made in accordance with the policy of the graduate schools to tighten up in their requirements. The majority of students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, however, in contrast to those in the Department of History, will take their examinations with College students when the regular reading tests are given...
...long talk with his father, Daniel Guggenheim about the latter's Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics which the former has been administering. They discussed the things they had done for aeronautics, the things they wanted to do. A half-million dollars more, they decided, would take care of the final odds & ends of their cultural-industrial project. Then they could consider their self-imposed job done. Dec. 31 this year would be a good day to mark the Fund's end. So they decided, and so Harry Guggenheim announced last week...
...should be perfectly free to have other affairs, and Elizabeth enjoyed her freedom, until she found that George was enjoying himself with her friend Fanny. Then George went to War, quixotically enlisting as a private. When he returned on leave, exhausted with hardship and tension, he could no longer take his share in the smart, arty conversations of his set, and found both Elizabeth and Fanny doing very well without him. His commission brought only increased nervous strain, so he let himself be killed...
...Institute subscribers is 37. ... One out of three Institute men is a university graduate," the Institute modestly insists: "You will never find us claiming that every man who enrolls in the Institute becomes a president. (But of the men who have enrolled, 45,000 are presidents.) . . . We don't take credit for the fine records made by our graduates any more than Yale or Princeton or Harvard take credit for theirs...