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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...civilizing of students as a vague, even faintly vulgar waste of time, are the darlings of their erudite colleagues and often of the president, who feels the responsibility of keeping the University in a good competitive position intellectually. Between the two groups occasionally there is mild academic friction. Last week at Yale there was strife...
...that he would retire from the faculty at end of the year, a full professorship in the English department was left vacant. After 14 years of well-received teaching at Yale, popular Mr. French hoped that the fruits of his long labors might be rewarded. But another consideration arose last month. He was offered the Provostship of Avon Old Farms, a pretentious two-year-old experimental school at Avon, Conn...
...assets of the university. . . . Every one who matriculates . . . will carry through after days their memory and spiritual influence." During his lifetime he gave some $200,000 to develop Cornell's campus. This autumn, just before his death, the trustees renamed the waterfalls of Cascadilla Creek in his honor. Last week Trustee Sackett's will was probated. He bequeathed some $750,000 to be known in perpetuity as the Sackett Landscape Fund...
...surveying the various steel companies included in the Eaton steel interests, began to predict a merger that would leave United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel no longer so pre-eminently first and second largest steel companies that the position of third largest carried with it only a statistical distinction. Last week a portion of the merger rumors came true in the formation of Republic Steel Co., Eaton consolidation which, though still considerably smaller even than Bethlehem Steel, moved indisputably into the third position and contained the potentialities of a still larger company wth the possible addition of other Eaton companies...
Republic Iron & Steel is the keynote of the new structure. Organized in 1899, from a merger of 24 small steel companies, chiefly in Ohio and Indiana, the company last year went through a rapid expansion program which included acquisition of Trumbull Steel Co. and Steel & Tubes, Inc. There were also continuous but as yet unfulfilled rumors of a merger with Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., in which Mr. Eaton is also interested. Republic Iron & Steel showed a net of $4,642,000 in 1928 and a net of $8,667,530 for the first nine months...