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Harvard welcomes the opportunity to meet increasingly rugged opposition in early-season contests. The University has too long laid itself open to adverse criticism and the charge of wrapping itself in cotton wool. The new schedule will effectually silence all such complaints...
...Coolidge is noted for his remarkable success in conducting great business enterprises. In 1858 he was chosen president of the Boott Manufacturing Company, which owned three large cotton mills in Lawrence. After he had restored the company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, to a strong financial basis, he went to France for several years, returning to this country to manage the Lawrence Cotton Manufacturing Company. In 1876 he accepted the position of treasurer of the Amoskeag Mills, which he resigned in 1897, when he became interested in railroads...
...being reflected in wholesale quotations. The following table will give you an idea of the effect of this readjustment on some of our staples. Commodity. Jan.1920. Present Price. Percentage. of Jan. Price. Beans, bushel, $4.65 $3.50 75% Cocoa, .22 .10 45 Coffee, .15 1/2 .07 1/2 48 Cotton, .40 .22 1/2 56 Cotton Yarns, .85 .45 .53 Flour, 16.75 11.00 68 Gingham, .27 1/2 .20 74 Hides, .55 .24 44 Leather, 2.90 2.40 83 Lard, .25 .19 76 Potatoes, 7.50 3.25 43 Rice, .15 .09 60 Rubber, .48 .24 50 Silk, 17.80 5.00 28 Sugar...
Nathaniel Farwell Ayer '00 of Boston, cotton manufacturer, who during the war organized and commanded the U. S. Naval Radio School in Cambridge...
...Christianity as the practical solution of the present Labor and Capital disputes. Time is also allowed for consideration of Christianity as applied to all professions, including Medicine, Law, Teaching, and Engineering. Every morning there is a large auditorium meeting addressed by some such prominent man as Mott, Eddy, Cotton, MacKenzie-King, Dean Brown, Fosdick, Fitch, or Bishop Brent. The best speakers available are secured, and it is hoped this year in particular to, have some of the leading American statesmen and industrial leaders...