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...Putnam's object in establishing a fund for intercollegiate contests of a purely academic nature was twofold: to foster general interest in scholarship, and to enable the student to demonstrate his loyalty to his college through scholastic attainments. Desire to gain a place among the college's intellectual representatives might well stimulate the average undergraduate to scholastic endeavor, but it would scarcely serve as an added incentive to do well on the examination itself to any but the ten picked men if their names were announced before the event. Under the present Harvard plan, however, at least every student...
...shrewdly-worded treaty; 2) The Coolidge Administration expected by the British to accept this treaty, so drawn as to make good political capital in the U. S. by giving the impression that a Coolidge victory had been won at Geneva; 3) The essence of this subterfuge to be twofold: a) That the U. S. and Britain should each be allowed to build 600,000 tons of cruisers (that is to say, a great many more than a pacific, pinch-penny U. S. Congress would ever authorize); and b) That all cruisers should be of 7,500 tons (which would suffice...
...With the fruits of my journey I am completely satisfied. I went to Rome primarily for the twofold purpose of obtaining an outlet to the sea at Fiume for Hungary and to conclude a treaty of friendship with Italy. Before undertaking the trip I already had received assurance from the Government of Jugoslavia that no hindrance would be placed on Hungarian goods enroute across Jugoslavia to Fiume. Naturally the agreements arrived at upon this point and supplementing our new treaty of friendship with Italy are only the foundation and framework of a system of friendly cooperation the details of which...
...object of the Putnam Arctic Expedition was twofold; to investigate life among the Esquimos, now fast disappearing of North Greenland, and to secure specimens of all the sea mammals and fish of the region, these to be placed in the American Museum of Natural History...
News dispatches from New York announce the opening of the national headquarters of the "American Association for Adult Education" after two years of preparatory work by the Carnegie Foundation. The association has a twofold significance...