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...eastern colleges--Harvard especially--soon discovered that expanding westward and also increasing scholarships resulted in multiplying by three or four the number of schools contributing applicants. Harvard was no longer dealing with schools like Exeter, Groton, and Boston Latin, whose headmasters and principals knew well which men the College was looking for. As a result, the Admissions Committee could no longer count so heavily on school recommendations, and it then began to see the need for much more personal interviewing...
...eastern colleges--Harvard especially--soon discovered that expanding westward and also increasing scholarships resulted in multiplying by three of four the number of schools contributing applicants. Harvard was no longer dealing with schools like Exeter, Groton, and Boston Latin, whose headmasters and principals knew well which men the College was looking for. As a result, the Admissions Committee could no longer count so heavily on school recommendations, and it began to see the need for much more personal interviewing...
...land prices," continued the bureau, "has naturally been strongest in those areas where prospects of higher farm income in 1951 and later appear to be the most promising." In corn-rich Iowa last week, farm land was selling for $400 an acre, compared to $350 last year; from Ohio westward to South Dakota, swollen farm prices boomed real-estate prices as much as 20%. With the U.S. demanding all-out farm production for defense, and with high prices guaranteed by federal support programs, most farmers reckon that the price of their land will go up a lot more...
Merk really shines in Westward Movement (162) despite his demand for minute detail on exams, and Schlesinger, Jr. makes his lectures both entertaining and controversial in American Intellectual History...
...joined on the Erie board by Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, a slippery pair of Civil War profiteers and stock-market riggers. In 1866, the trio tangled with Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wanted to get control of the Erie because it competed with his New York Central, then pushing westward to Chicago. When Vanderbilt tried to buy up every Erie share on the market, the supply suddenly became endless. Reason: Jim Fisk had set up a press to turn out fake stock certificates. Vowed Fisk: "If this printing press don't break down, I'll be damned...