Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Biggest U. S. university in point of enrolment is Columbia. Last week it was revealed by Registrar Edward J. Grant that Columbia could also be called the biggest U. S. muliebral institution. Out of 38,230 students enrolled last year (excluding 9,928 who took home study courses) some 20,000 or 52% were female. In the summer sessions was even a greater proportion of women: 9,600 out of a total 13,887. Said Registrar Grant: "Women are simply going more and more into the professions." Hoped he: examination of Columbia's enrolment figures would enlighten those...
...mile telephone conversation to Java was held, delighting telephone officials. Students of international dickerings said Mr. Chadbourne had made a typically American error. He had placed his cards on the table the first day. The Dutch did not believe those were his real terms, but merely the starting point for compromises. After the conference seemed over, however, Visp announced it would come to terms. Mr. Chadbourne had indeed beat the Dutch...
...favorites, Franco Georgetti and Paul Brocardo. When the last hour began, Brocardo & Georgetti were riding desperately to keep a one-lap lead over two young Belgians, Adolph Charlier and Roger De Nef. Strong, ambitious, daring, Charlier & De Nef were in every jam, always dangerous, took three times as many points for sprints as anyone else. But in that last hour of a race in which there had been many accidents and in which all records since the Berlin system of point scoring was introduced in 1916 had been broken, Brocardo & Georgetti kept their lead, took first place, with...
University--January 10, Westwood; January 17, Norwich; February 14, Army at West Point, February 21, Cleveland Cavalry at Cleveland; February 22, Cincinnati Riding Club at Cincinnati; February 28, Yale at New Haven; March 7, Battery A; March 14, Yale...
...work in Belgium, before and after the war. The course discusses the various attempts at international government from the earliest times, including the schemes of Abbe Pierre and Sully. It concludes with the League of Nations, and the so-called World Court. The League is regarded from a critical point of view, with the action of the United States in not joining being analyzed. An interesting forecast is made of the future position of the United States as concerns its participation in European affairs and in attempts to establish some sort of control for the whole world...