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...Saturday, April 1, the 15 per cent paycut for federal employees went into effect," the Director continued. "Last year salaries above $1000 were cut eight and two-third per cent. Now we have made the cut on every salary from top to bottom uniform. This will provide for at least...
Crimson supporters follow another line of reasoning. Princeton defeated Yale 70-65 and won over Harvard with a two-third point larger margin. These comparative scores predict practically a tie between Harvard and Yale. Crimson followers also point to the fact that 12 of Yale's points in the Intercollegiates were gathered by one man, Norton. A first, second, and third count more for an individual college in an intercollegiate meet than they do in a dual meet. Whereas Harvard scored no one in either of the sprints at the Intercollegiates or in the broad jump, in the dual meet...
...medal as a permanent tribute to the original electrical wizard, with an endowment to be administered by the A. I. E. E. The medal committee consists of 24 men carefully chosen to reflect all shades of opinion and is periodically changed. Each medallist must be chosen by a two-third vote, several have been unanimous. The medal was designed by James Earle Fraser, the sculptor, and bears upon its face a striking profile of Edison; upon the reverse an allegorical relief: "The Genius of Electricity Crowned by Fame." The Edison medallists in chronological order...
...struggling with that great problem of the first of a year, the selection of a full set of new courses. Each man will rush from professor to faculty adviser, and from faculty adviser to Miss Monk in a wild effort to determine how many of the one-third and two-third courses that seem in vogue at present are necessary to satisfy that exacting band known as the Committee on the Choice of Electives. The little green pamphlet shows, among other things, that the war has made itself felt in more departments than that of German; many courses are bracketed...
...intercollegiate cross country championship will be held today at New York, over the Morris Park steeple-chase course. Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia will compete. Terms of ten men have been entered, of whom six will run. The length of the course will be six and two-third miles, and will include forty obstacles, consisting of the famous Liver-pool jump, hedges, water jump, and ditches...