Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...first two wings, those at the right and center, are being constructed at first; the third will await the raising of sufficient funds for its completion. The architecture is of the modernized Georgian style which is employed in all recent additions in the University. According to plans released last spring by the designing architects, it will be five stories in height, with red brick exterior walls on a reinforced concrete frame, and white steel casement fenestration...
...mature for a year or more. The Treasury is now paying 3½% interest on these notes. Every banker knew that Secretary Mellon had recalled these issues with the expectation of refunding them with other offerings at a lower rate. If the refunding operation is carried out next spring on the same advantageous terms as prevailed last week, U. S. taxpayers stand to gain more than...
With the entrance of the Class of 1934 the former Freshman dormitory advisory system is to be expanded and changed. The changes which were announced by Dean Hanford late last spring, provide for the division of the Freshman Class into small groups each to be assigned to one of the resident proctors of the Freshman dormitories...
Commenting on this aspect of the situation, Dean Hanford wrote the following last spring: "Although the process of transition has been made somewhat more gradual and effective by the developments just described, it would be folly to assume that all of the difficulties have been solved or that readjustments of machinery and methods are alone sufficient. It is necessary that the schools and colleges give further thought to the subject. On the point of the college it is necessary that the quality of instruction of beginning classes be still further improved by the use of a large number of experienced...
...sponsored by Joseph Palmer Knapp, chairman of the finance committee of Crowell Publishing Co. and Thomas William Lamont, banker. Joseph Knapp, although he was once arrested for shooting too many ducks on his island in North Carolina, has long regretted the fact that U. S. birds are disappearing. Last spring, Mr. Knapp read a book on black bass written by Senator Hawes, decided that Senator Hawes was the man to head an efficient commission. He offered him the presidency for ten years at a salary of $50,000 per year. The new president, who also wrote a book...