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Today is the last day that essays for the Harry Hodgson prize of $25 maybe submitted. This prize is open to all students in the Graduate School of Business Administration. The subject may be either "The Value of Fertilizers in Increasing Crop Production" of "The Marketing of Cotton Seed Products." Any these prepared as part of a course in the Business School are eligible for this prize. All essays should be hand in the Dean at University 17 before 5 o'clock today...
...school of pedagogy may allow women pupils, but we feel sure that the College will never be subject to the feminizing sway. That timid idea, so tentatively proposed by the Governing Board will not be adopted at Harvard. The stern spirits of every Puritan from Miles Standish to Cotton Mather arise in solemn protest. We see the inventor of the original "New England conscience" deliver his fateful warning.--Never. The drear halls of Sever shall not be made frivolous. No shall they invade the awful precincts of "Mem". For this is your God: Education. And Education is austere. Elseit were...
...University of Berlin for two semesters. On his return he became a master at Groton School where he taught for ten years. Between the years 1905 and 1907 he was a reporter on the "New York Evening Sun" and entered the lumber business in Mexico and later the cotton converting business in Boston...
...relations between Belgium and Germany, he said. "There will not be friendship, but they will resume trade. Germany will be considered on merely business relations; there can be no sympathy for centuries. They literally exhausted the country. They wanted the copper, they wanted the wool, they wanted the cotton, they wanted everything." They were allowed to want, at the University of Louvain at least, for all the copper, including Professor De Wulf's six elaborate chandeliers, was collected in one of the college buildings. When the German officer demanded it, the president of the university replied: "We have no copper...
...prevent the wearing of gold or silver brocade and lace. From then on various sumptuary laws were proclaimed regulating to the minutest detail every man's apparel--Sometimes prescribing on what public occasions nightgowns should be worn, and sometimes forbidding them altogether, as in 1822: "A night-gown of cotton, or fabric, or silk fabric may be worn....except on the Sabbath or occasions when undress would be improper." Finally, in 1870, the size of the college and the students growing spirit of independence caused these laws to be abolished. From then on, it was a custom for Seniors...