Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monthly is a suggestion on the football finance problem by President Henry Smith Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching. The problem, says he, is "to substitute some other sport for football that will bring just as much revenue into the college chest while not exacting the toll in young lives and lowered college ideals. . . . The substitute must provide at least three things: it must be a great spectacle which will attract crowds of paying sightseers, it must invoke at least the semblance of college rivalry, and it must be so ordered that graduates and undergraduates can easily...
...Houses. For those who object to paying for a private installation the system used in Randolph Hall is ideal. There every study is fitted with a telephone, which operates from a private exchange for the building. The only charge to the occupants of the suites is a five cent toll on each outside call which they make. Calls originating outside, or wholly within the building, are free. Since all the rooms in the Houses are already wired for telephones, there should be no serious objection to equipping every House as Randolph is equipped...
...among U. S. colleges and universities. Many a pedagog makes moan, but last week it was pointed out by the Association of American Colleges that this readjustment is "the integration of the American college. . . . Duplication of effort is being reduced, and systems of colleges are being organized. While taking toll of weakness, the depression has at the same time tended to conserve and enhance strength wherever found." Hence, mergers, consolidations and closures have in the main been justified...
...month earlier Ivar Kreuger had sent the Premier a personal check for 50,000 kroner from Manhattan. Ten days after that check was dated Premier Ekman had called a night session of the Riksdag, had forced through a 16,680,000-kronor appropriation for Swedish Match Co. and Kreuger & Toll. Recently Premier Ekman has been questioned again & again about entries after his name in the Kreuger notebooks. The 50,000-kronor check came to light but Premier Ekman denied having received...
...Toll: Dead, 2; injured, 55: arrested, 135, including Charles P. Ruby. D. S. C., first to greet the President at the New Year's day reception at the White House in 1931 (TIME...