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...Machine parts made of powdered metals. Says Electrochemist Colin Garfield Fink of Columbia University: "The basic idea is simple. Fill any mold with a metal powder. Apply pressure, and increase the temperature to a certain point. ... A hard metal object is promptly produced." Advantages: speed, economy and the opportunity to make parts of a single object out of different metals, molded together...
...main deficiency, the poll showed, is the lack of experienced tutors. Most of the supervisors are graduate students, leading men in their fields. Yet the very best of these graduate students have already been hired by the University to act as instructors in the basic courses. Although in every case the supervisors are recommended by their Department to the Bureau, they usually have never done any previous teaching...
Another way in which the Bureau could perhaps be improved is for the University to spend more money getting better men. At present, the basic charge to students is $2.50 an hour, but many are helped free if they cannot afford to pay. But if Harvard were prepared to spend more, good men could be hired who would be able to compete favorably in experience with the local commercial schools...
...idea of teaching moppets the basic facts of economics dawned two years ago on the fertile mind of a Boston school committeeman, Joseph Lee Jr. A Brahmin, blueblood, Harvard graduate, 40-year-old Joe Jr. is the eccentric liberal grandson of a founder of the Boston banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. and a great-great-grandson of Thomas H. Perkins, who turned down a Cabinet post as Secretary of the Navy under George Washington because he owned more ships than the Navy did. His father, the late Joe Lee Sr., was a famed humanitarian who once made a pilgrimage...
NEWS: We have heard Count Basic to slightly better advantage than he was last Monday, but even a somewhat below par Count has more punch than most swing bands now making the rounds. The boys didn't play too many popular melodies of the day, as there was an ugly rumor that they were going to do. As usual, most of the arrangements featured a raft of solos, with Buck Clayton and Don Byas, the new tenor sax artist, particularly outstanding. The rhythm section suffered from the absence of Joe Jones from the tympani, which probably disconcerted the boys...