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...education, a trend in which the Grant Study is the latest example. The tutorial system, the House Plan, the Board of Freshman Advisers are all part of this trend. But these examples are attempts to adapt the individual more nearly to the requirements of a Harvard education. With the advent of the Grant Study, a conscious attempt is being made for the first time in its history to adapt Harvard education to the undergraduate...
...more under charter and Government allotment. At war's end it sold the Moormack for $400,000, later snapped up the Government's offer to take its huge merchant marine off its hands at dirt cheap prices of $10 to $15 a deadweight ton. The advent of World War II found Moore-McCormack big and respectable (capital: $5,000,000), in hock to the Government and worried over what to do with the surplus ships that the provisions of the Neutrality Bill may take out of service. Last week it found an answer...
...fuel under pressure drives a jet of gas particles to the rear, and the recoil sends the rockets ahead. Rockets were used as war missiles in the early 19th Century. They had ranges up to two miles, better than the artillery of that day, were discarded only with the advent of breech-loading guns with longer ranges and rifled barrels...
...many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance of a custard pic in flight. The second scene involves the Keystone cops and a 1913 Ford. The glorious, lusty pantomime of the whole scene makes one wonder whether real movie comedy didn't die with the advent of the talkies...
...return of Koufman to active service, after being sidelined with a body injury, promises to ease Coach Harlow's end problem more than at any time since the advent of Loren MacKinney to the front ranks. Koufman, ineligible last year, was rated the best end on the Freshman squad in 1937, and his presence against Penn will mean much to both the Crimson attack and defense...