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...colleges can neutralize its restrictive influence by allowing credit for subjects outside its narrow range. By its recent decision California joins a number of Eastern colleges in taking a liberal attitude on the question. This stand indicates that colleges are recognizing more completely what they can do to offset limitations which a strictly interpreted examination system places on secondary schools...
...last week. II Duce had just announced in the Senate that the budget for the first five months of fiscal 1930-31 showed a deficit of $43,700,000. Salaries of all state employes from II Duce down to the humblest postman had already just been cut 12%. To offset this 43-million loss further it was announced that $15,000,000 will be lopped from the budgets of all ministries -that is, from all but the war budget. The Italian Army will cost $156,000,000 next year; the navy, $80.923,000; the air force, $40,000.000. Two days...
...still a good financial year. The Treasury's surplus for that year was $183,789,214.90. But ". . . as a matter of fact, the actual receipts during the fiscal year 1930 were about $71,000,000 less than the estimate contained in the 1931 budget. This was partially offset by a net reduction in expenditures of $29,500,000 below those estimated...
...Summer School showed the largest enrollment in Arts and Sciences in its history. Last summer 501 students were registered in this department against 452 the preceeding season. This gain in the Arts and Sciences was partially offset by a decline in enrollment in the School of Education and of Physical Education. The percentage of men in the School increased, and of these, the number of school superintendents has diminished. Indications pointed to a larger enrollment than actually took place, as the continued financial depression apparently caused a considerable number to cancel their reservations...
...nation in the world so proud of our manufactures that we never pretend them to be anything but what they are! Aren't you proud of your products? Why do you endeavor to make the world believe your goods are British by establishing factories here in order to offset British competition...