Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio is famed for its curious plan of study, an experimental system far beyond the wildest dreams of famed Educator Horace Mann, its first President (1853-59). At Antioch, co-educational since 1921, students are divided into two divisions, A & B. In alternating five-week periods, all year round, while one division is at school, the other is working. The A students study while the B students hold down the jobs. Then they shift. Most undergraduates are employed in nearby Cleveland and Dayton, in department stores, landing fields, newspapers, advertising agencies, factories...
...Brown University one evening last week, in oldtime Sayles Memorial Hall where chapel is held, some 1,000 graduates gathered to sit on couches and chairs brought in to make them feel like "just one big family." Master of ceremonies was Everett Colby, '97, Manhattan lawyer. He introduced one of whom all there had heard, his classmate Alumnus John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Alumnus Colby said that Alumnus Rockefeller "runs a gas station somewhere down near New York" and assured the gathered company that "John would be pleased to meet any member of the alumni who needs a million dollars...
Most people who go to Baden-Baden do so to quaff curative quarts of German water, tone up their livers, rest. But last week in the sumptuous Hotel Stephanie potent bankers from seven nations continued to defy all restful rules. Night after long night they kept the Grand Ballroom blazing behind locked doors until nearly dawn. Chairman of these occult doings was driving, restless Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of the First National Bank of New York...
Certainly there was nothing spectacular last week in the wilted mien of Belgian Banker Leon Delacroix as he went up to bed from the busy ballroom well after midnight. Nearly all the European delegates looked tired as spaniels. Distinguished M. Delacroix affects smartly upturned moustaches. Now they drooped. As he disrobed, the onetime Prime Minister of Belgium and the only original member of the Reparations Commission who remained a member last week sighed to Mme Delacroix, "Hélas, I am not so young...
Negative Decision. The bankers were agreed last week that the B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) shall not issue notes or create credits, shall merely transfer, distribute and mobilize existing credits. It will be a clearing house for Reparations, not an international bank of issue, not a competitor with the great central banks as some have feared. Consequently the B. I. S. will have only a small gold reserve, since the sole worth of a large reserve is to back notes or credits...