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This vote was passed in an effort to make the practise with regard to examinations in graduate courses more uniform, and was designed primarily to affect research courses in which the ordinary final examination was not constant with the work of the course...
...ruling with respect to the language requirements will affect all those men entering the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences this coming Fall and thereafter, but it will apply principally to men entering from other colleges than Harvard, for all graduates of Harvard College have already been required to satisfy the requirement, and will not be asked to take a second examination. Men already students in the University are not affected by the ruling. Previous courses in languages taken outside Harvard will not be counted toward this requirement, but all candidates for the degree except those named above will...
...Senate's farm bill, for refusing even a conference to reconcile differences between it and the House's measure. The Constitution gives the House sole power to initiate revenue legislation. Many a House leader considered the Senate's Debenture plan a revenue item because it would affect tariff income. The Senate countermoved by planning to insert the Debenture Plan in the Tariff Bill when that comes up from the House...
...that the retail buyer would not see much change in his meat and grocery bills. Operations between producer and consumer by the much-maligned Middle-Man would, experts explained, serve as a buffer between farm prices and store prices. Illustration: The corn duty raise of 10¢ per bushel would affect corn products (flakes, syrup, oil, etc.) by only a fraction of ordinary market fluctuations in corn, which sometimes are as much as 50¢ per bushel in a season without altering retail prices...
...films. Hitherto, if a film was tinted it interfered with light passing through the sound track, distorted the sound. Experiments were made with tinting only the visual portion of the film. The method was successful, but expensive. Then efforts were bent to securing tints that would not affect the light passing through the sound record. This has been achieved so that there is hardly any perceptible difference between the sounds coming through films having different tints...