Word: totality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second School represented at the Conference desires to burst through the bureaucratic, stereotyped agenda. An ardent "Second Schooler'' is President Isidore Ayora of Ecuador. His words: "It is necessary to step from verbal and declamatory Pan-Americanism to ... . concrete Pan-Americanism ... to the effective and total recognition of identical rights for all American states . . . repelling the possibility that there may exist or could exist, governments or peoples that domineer...
Manufacturing drew the largest number of men, 74 graduates having chosen to enter this Profession. Finance came next with a total of 73 electing to pursue a career in the field. Telephone and Telegraph work was third in order, 31 and 18 students respectively taking up this form of occupation...
...Alumni Appointment Office was instrumental in securing positions for 174 men last year, and all have reported what salaries they are earning. The total is $310,408. The Business School placed 168 men last year, but no salaries have been reported as yet. The Engineering School placed 16 graduates...
...worce than this is the almost total absence of ventilation in the Reading Room. The air is at all times atrociously foul. One is fairly stifled by the carbon dioxide, body odors, and lack of oxygen. It is only after some minutes that one is able to breathe in comfort; and then, almost before one realizes it, the CO2 has begun to act. It makes one sluggish, drowsy, and totally incapable of his best work. Doubtless it explains why we see so many young men indolently gazing off into space while absorbed in the fascinating process of picking their noses...
...large donor was coming to a close, and that universities must eventually become self-supporting. At Yale, even with the forthcoming increase, students will still pay less than half the cost of education. At Harvard the percentage paid by the individual must be even smaller. Though the total endowment is much larger than at Yale, the drain of graduate schools and work is greater here...