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...further says, "that applications for admission not only to Harvard but to all colleges are steadily increasing in number. The limitation of the quota will have to be applied in the immediate future, and that will introduce the competitive element into our system of admission for the first time. Pursuant to the Faculty's vote, we are to receive those who qualify in the regular way by examination, whose average is 75 per cent or higher and all those admitted without examination. This may or may not leave a margin under the quota. If it does, the Committee...
Disarmament. Pursuant to a resolution passed by the Assembly of the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 5), the Council proceeded to take cognizance of the work of the subcommittees which have been preparing the earliest groundwork for a League Disarmament Conference, and began to deliberate upon what further preliminary steps should be taken...
Last week, pursuant to General Lincoln C. Andrews' reorganization plans for the Prohibition Unit, the Prohibition Director in Manhattan summoned his 180 prohibition agents to his office. But 35 went miserably and empty-handed away, Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith were among them...
...delegates represent the U. S., Netherlands, Portugal, Japan, China. Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the They are meeting pursuant to the Nine-Power Treaty negotiated to settle Chinese tariff problems at Washington (1921-22), which was only fully ratified last August. This treaty was, of course, negotiated simultaneously with the famed Five-Power Washington Naval Disarmament Treaties, and another Nine-Power treaty promising an inquiry into the Chinese "extraterritoriality" system, which will be made at Peking in December...
...President, pursuant to a resolution of Congress, ordered the balance of the Boxer indemnity,* amounting to $6,137,552.90, remitted to China for educational purposes...