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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayan calendar," said Dr. Spinden, "passed out of use in 1561 when the Mayan books were destroyed in the Spanish Inquisition. At that time it had functioned for more than 2000 years without losing a day. The dates left on Mayan monuments have puzzled students for many years, and their final solution along the lines laid down by the American school is a distinct triumph over European archaeologists, who have approached the question through their knowledge of the Aztecs. It is now possible to correlate every date in the Mayan calendar with the corresponding date in the Georgian calendar...
Besides the two Chairmen of the Blue Book Board, eleven other members will be chosen by a competition which will start at a date not yet decided upon...
Little change in the fundamentals of business conditions has been ob- served; students of the business cycle and others are, however, predicting a drop in the Federal Reserve rate at an early date, and a consequent rise in bonds, especially those of the railroads...
...during the early months of the college year and mere business policy, if nothing else, would seem to dictate its publication as early as possible during that period. But the fact remains that this year, as more than once in the past, it has appeared at an unreasonably late date. Probably, as is the case with so many collegiate publications which become tardy in their date of publication, there are perfectly valid reasons for the delay; unfortunately that does not help the subscriber--nor, it may be added, the publisher...
...strayed from the straight and narrow path of promptness and efficiency, it would be cause for regret and nothing more. But it is not, for, in the past, the Register, for which the Student Council is generally and financially responsible, has often either lost money or appeared at a date which made it practically valueless. In the spring of 1922 its debt, after the receipts of the year, remained at $1100. In the college year of 1920-21, it did not appear until late in March...