Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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In accordance with a long-considered plan, Mr. Matthew Luce '91, Regent of the University, announced yesterday a list of nearly a hundred Juniors who have been appointed, and approved, as advisers for the Unclassified Students of the University. Mr. Luce initiated the plan last May but it was necessary...
Letters are being sent out to both the Juniors and their advises, containing official notice of the appointments. It is expected that this plan will work out much the same as the Senior Advisory system.
Roger Ward Babson, President of the Babson Statistical Organization, and one of the recognized authorities on business conditions in this country, delivered a speech on the present business situation at an open meeting of the Graduate Schools Society of the University in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, last evening. He...
"First,' he said, "the working people in this country are in possession of the great majority of the bonds issued by the United States Government during the war. This is a very favorable sign for it shows that the great mass of people are in a sound financial condition.
"Second, that as a result of the coming of national prohibition, two and one-half billion dollars, previously wasted in this industry yearly, are now available for business projects that are more useful and more likely to promote the welfare of the people.