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Of Wellesley's presidents, none but Ellen Fitz Pendleton has been a Wellesley alumna. Modern Wellesley is the creation of snow-haired, precise "Pres. Penn," who in 25 years increased the "college's endowment by $7,000,000, ruled it with an iron hand. Early in President Pendleton...
Between the red-&-gold covers of Porter Sargent's famed catalog of 4,000 private schools, many an undecided parent seeks an educational niche for his offspring. Schoolmasters browse through it to get information about their competitors. But Private Schools' readership is by no means confined to these...
¶ In Omaha, Burlington, Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western Railroads explained to an Interstate Commerce Commissioner why they wished to buy Union Transfer Co., whose trucks run to North Platte, Neb. and the Twin Cities, for $150,000, develop it with some $450,000 more. In opposition, Keeshin, which...
Biochemistry as a field of concentration should be viewed with caution by those interested in science. Although the subject is a definite science in itself, at Harvard the staff and facilities are so limited that, while the Department covers a wide range of subject matter, most of its material is...
Railroad men prefer to write annual reports almost exclusively with figures. Though he may be baffled by such things as average gross tons per freight-locomotive mile or average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of...