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...presented a plan for a cooperative bank. The triennial convention of the Brotherhood authorized him to establish one. On Armistice Day, 1920, the first engineers cooperative bank was opened in Cleveland. Today, the Brotherhood controls 13 banks and investment companies with assets of perhaps $150,000,000. Today it owns four large office buildings in Cleveland, one in Manhattan, besides other buildings...
...University College, London, 400 delegates met for the Triennial Imperial Education Conference. Represented were all the lands of the British Empire. Solemn sessions were held for five days, much was discussed. Chief attention was given to experiment and new development in education−a day to "the newest methods in the training of teachers," a day to the Dalton System (mode of secondary education, perfected by Miss Parkhurst of Dalton, Mass.). Eminent literary men delivered addresses on "English as a Bond of Empire." At one of the sessions, Alfred Noyes, poet and former lecturer at Princeton University, presided...
...lightly, and the weight of his world-wide reputation, is again among us to participate in every meeting of this distinguished gathering." Lord Curzon was gratified that the Congress had chosen to meet in England for the first time. Professor Giordano, of Vienna, was elected President for the next triennial meeting, at Rome, in 1926. Neville Chamberlain, British Minister of Health, announced that in 20 years the British deathrate has been reduced from 17 per 1,000 to less than 13. (That of the U. S. Registration Area is 11.9, but the British figures cover the entire Kingdom...
...clock on Monday morning the members of the Class of 1920 will gather in the rear of Widener Library for the official opening of their triennial reunion. The class will then proceed by automobile to the Scituate Inn, Scituate, which will be the official headquarters during the outing...
...initial award of the triennial prize will be in the autumn of 1925, the subject for this competition being "Business Development and the Modern Trust Company". No restrictions are made as to eligibility of contestants for this prize, but the donors have in mind particularly officers of banks, business executives, practicing attorneys, members of teaching staffs, and graduate students in the field of economics and finance...