Word: transferability
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...clearly that the task is not nearly as simple as that of the patriarch Moses when he faced a similar situation. He had to deal with people who had already descended to their knees in worship. Finding them in this emotional mood it was not difficult to transfer their adoration from a golden calf to the heavens. There was no argument needed worship was worship...
...basis for discrimination to be adopted. J. D. Du Bois '24 and Corliss Lamont '24, on the affirmative, put forth, in brief, this plan: that the Freshman class be kept under 850 in number by preventing the repeated enrolment of dropped students without a second examination, by discouraging transfer students from other colleges, and, above all, by discontinuing fall entrance examinations, which are responsible, they maintained, for 75 percent of the Freshmen who go on probation. Further, they advocated an additional general examination designed to test the candidate's ability, potentiality, and breadth of culture instead of his acquisitive power...
...would seem advisable that the first step in any solution of the problem would be the determining of an inelastic maximum Freshman enrollment (at least while the physical capacity of the University remains what it now is), exclusive of transfer students for whom there are separate rules and of dropped Freshmen who usually do not strain first-year facilities, but would include all Freshmen registered in the College or Engineering School. This maximum the Crimson sets at 900. The number with which any system of limitations must deal should be only a percentage of the 900, for the Crimson believes...
...real reason for the fall is that the French budget is in a very unsatisfactory condition. Although the ordinary budget has been balanced by a transfer from the "extraordinary budget," the actual deficit for last year in the profit and loss account of the French Treasury was stated to be 23,000,000,000 francs. This was, of course, largely for reconstruction work in the devastated areas and the money was, or has to be, found by another issuance of government bonds. Thus it was said that "95% of the assets of the Bank of France are obligations...
Officials at the H. A. A. ticket offices are still at work on cases of illegal transfer of tickets to the Harvard-Yale game, but investigations of the games with Dartmouth and Princeton have been brought to a close...