Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later U. S. school readers and grammars became more prosaic, duller. Recently schoolbook readability has been on the upswing. Last week many a delighted moppet began the fall term with a quaint new grammar, full, like The New England Primer, of verses, pictures and homely illustrations. Unlike the Primer, however, A Living Grammer* takes for its theme not piety...
...Cracked down upon another investment "thrift plan" (for selling securities on the installment plan over a term of years). SEC has enjoined an estimated 25% of such U. S. thrift plans from selling shares without prospectuses or with misleading information. Last week the sixth thrift plan enjoined by SEC, Lexington Foundation Inc., consented to a permanent injunction without admitting guilt.* Lexington, whose contracts total about $16,000,000, may continue in busi ness so long as it is careful to issue prospectuses which make clear such facts as that from the first $100 which an investor pays, some...
...increase of '65 students over the 1937-38 registration is expected, with 4,444 men enrolled for this term, as compared to last year's figure of 4,379. The figures are necessarily but rough approximations because of the early date and extraordinary weather conditions. They are computed for eleven major schools...
...Medical School in Boston anticipates the arrival of 516 students this term, four more than last year. Because there are no set terms for graduate medical students, it is impossible to compute their number, although over the space of a year they number several hundreds...
Selection of the three outstanding candidates for admission to the Medical School this fall as recipients of National Scholarships offered by the School under the University's "long term" scholarship policy have been announced. Winners are Glen T. Loymaster, of Aurora, Nebraska, Nebraska '88, Clarke T. Case, of Pinmana, Burma, Cornell '38, and Laurence G. Wesson Jr., and Baltimore, Maryland, Haverford...