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...huge, blue-shuttered Italianate villa on Baltimore's exclusive North Charles Street, ten grave, rich men sat down one evening this week for a long talk about money. Headed by Daniel Willard, and including among their absent members Walter Sherman Gifford and Newton Diehl Baker, their concern for the moment was not with the state of railroads, of telephones, of law or even of politics. As the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, it was their solemn duty to approve a plan of campaign which, when launched next week, will serve notice on the nation that its pioneer...
...member who concentrated in romance, John Clement, hockey player. There was another in Walter Lawrence who makes the Dionne quintuplets look sick by proving that a man born last July can handle the Senior year at Harvard with a minimum of difficulty. Richard M. Starr caused the greatest concern by announcing that his only home is Kirkland House. Orville H. Emmons reported that he was an "active" member of the Mountaineering Club...
...reading period the two most important questions concern the advisibility of omitting all reading period assignments from the examination and having this material reported upon in tutorial conferences at the beginning of the second half year. The other query is the extent to which students take advantage of the omission of classes to make up the work they failed to do earlier in the term...
...study of these questions, of which this book is the result, was started some years ago as a purely theoretical investigation, before the Treasury deficit became a matter of immediate and universal concern. This longer period of time has permitted the author to give due consideration to the entire field, without being overwhelmed by the urgency of any immediate problem; an unbiased treatment of the subject is accordingly assured...
...successor, the Pony Express. But in 1869 it was caught napping while the first transcontinental railroad pushed through. When Wells Fargo put in a bid for the rail express contract, it found that an upstart named Pacific Union Express already had it. Simultaneously, it discovered the same concern had beaten down Wells Fargo stock from $100 to $13, then bought in, acquired control. In 1872, following a vast shuffle of officers, Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco became president of Wells Fargo...