Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis for discrimination to be adopted. J. D. Du Bois '24 and Corliss Lamont '24, on the affirmative, put forth, in brief, this plan: that the Freshman class be kept under 850 in number by preventing the repeated enrolment of dropped students without a second examination, by discouraging transfer students from other colleges, and, above all, by discontinuing fall entrance examinations, which are responsible, they maintained, for 75 percent of the Freshmen who go on probation. Further, they advocated an additional general examination designed to test the candidate's ability, potentiality, and breadth of culture instead of his acquisitive power...
...would seem advisable that the first step in any solution of the problem would be the determining of an inelastic maximum Freshman enrollment (at least while the physical capacity of the University remains what it now is), exclusive of transfer students for whom there are separate rules and of dropped Freshmen who usually do not strain first-year facilities, but would include all Freshmen registered in the College or Engineering School. This maximum the Crimson sets at 900. The number with which any system of limitations must deal should be only a percentage of the 900, for the Crimson believes...
...real reason for the fall is that the French budget is in a very unsatisfactory condition. Although the ordinary budget has been balanced by a transfer from the "extraordinary budget," the actual deficit for last year in the profit and loss account of the French Treasury was stated to be 23,000,000,000 francs. This was, of course, largely for reconstruction work in the devastated areas and the money was, or has to be, found by another issuance of government bonds. Thus it was said that "95% of the assets of the Bank of France are obligations...
Officials at the H. A. A. ticket offices are still at work on cases of illegal transfer of tickets to the Harvard-Yale game, but investigations of the games with Dartmouth and Princeton have been brought to a close...
...second class of phenomena is sharply discriminated from the first. It deals with mental rather than physical manifestations,--which may best be described as the transfer of messages without the ordinary means of sense communication. There have been many famous mediums who have possessed this power., There is one, estimable lady still living in Boston, who while in a trance revealed the most extraordinary knowledge, which seemed to come from some deceased person. Both by hand and voice she was able to transmit messages seeming to come with certainty from persons no longer in the flesh...