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Estimates for the other departments of the University were not obtainable last night. Exact figures will be available several days from...
...income for the two professorships in the graduate school will allow a salary of at least $7,000. The announcement of the decision of the corporation regarding the disposition of the Lord Strathcona Fund is the first statement of the exact size of the bequest, which totals...
...Thom in 1466, when it had been acquired from the Teutonic Knights. In those three centuries West Prussia had become thoroughly Polish in population and customs. Danzig, added to the New Prussia in 1792, was up to that time a free city under Polish protection. That is the exact status which, according to the Peace Treaty, it is to have hereafter...
...which stimulates men's minds to do big things. Unconsciously, the idea scoffed at by many people, forces are at work continually around us which make for the production of great and brave men. And the reason Harvard is such a good training ground is because it is an exact replica, on a small scale, of the outside world. Here one meets all the outward indifference that one finds when he starts in on a business career. Here one can make a success in any number of ways, in athletics, in studies, socially, economically, even morally. But the whole course...
...present equipment is extensive and is being added to constantly. At Lawrence Hall, there are nine separate factory clocks representing the different systems employed in registering workers as they anter upon or finish a piece of work, together with the "sub stations" for catching the exact time they do so. There is also a very complete system of card indexes, telephone and mailing lists; typical blank forms, ledgers, and account books, and the latest ideas in filing devices. The $10,000 tabulating machine is considered one of the greatest time-savers ever invented; it is not sold, but rented...