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On the whole the first half, dealing with botany (for which the student is not held responsible on the final exam) is considerably better conducted than the second half. Dr. Woodworth, the lecturer, attempts to anticipate and amplify the work of the weekly section meetings. These three-hour afternoon struggles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Offers Seventh Annual Confidential Guide for Freshmen | 9/25/1931 | See Source »

Telephone companies have other uses for their wires besides letting you use them to keep in touch with your friends. They lease them to burglar alarm, news and stock-ticker companies. When a convention or concert is to be broadcast from a hall, it is often sent over a leased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wired Music | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

The office places at the disposal of undergraduates a file of material relating to the various career and professions. Questionnaires have been sent to certain members of the faculty, doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and graduates in other branches of business or the professions. These men have specified on the questionnaires the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Putnam, New Personnel Relations Director, to Continue as Consultant on Careers-Office Files are Open to All | 4/28/1931 | See Source »

Admitting the truth of the basic fact, there nevertheless seem to be several weaknesses in the recommendation. There are great differences in the rate that persons intellectually mature. Some mature early, finish secondary school in four years without difficulty, and are admitted to college, where they do good work. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOUR-YEAR PLAN | 3/10/1931 | See Source »

Unless you are a student of French literature you probably think of Charles Baudelaire as an overrated, vaguely Satanic poet who wrote a slim volume called Flews du Mai and wanted to be thought more wicked than he was. Biographer Pierre Loving does not so much correct this impression as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baudelaire with Loving Care* | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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