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First places only will count in the meet scoring, except in case of a tie in first and then the meet will be decided on second places. A rough chart of performances would indicate that the Americans will get at least six first places, and that they can win on second places. An optimistic chart would give the Harvard-Yale team seven first places and nine second places it follows...

Author: By Frank Ryan, | Title: Harvard-Yale Track Combination Doped to Lead Oxford-Cambridge | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

...chart of the Morgan family of financiers, with photographs, was both arresting and instructive among the exhibits. Beginning with Joseph Morgan (born 1790), who gained control of a Massachusetts stage-coach system, to the present John Pierpont Morgan and his children, who control railroad, steamship, telephone, telegraph and wireless systems, the family has shown a consistent "inheritance of capacity for organization and financial leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genetics | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...preliminary competition consisted in the design of an island estate on a topographical survey chart which was sent to all contestants. Only 14 hours were allowed for completing the preliminary drawing. The final competition, which will be judged on June 29, consists in the completion and elaboration of the preliminary plan, and the submission of drawings and specifications for carrying out the proposed development. The contestants are required to work in private, receiving no advice or criticism of any sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO HARVARD MEN ENTER FINALS FOR ROME PRIZE | 6/7/1929 | See Source »

...helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never the lack of it. Records of grades and activities should only supplement opinions formed by personal contact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOCATIONS GUIDE OUTLINED IN NEW COUNCIL REPORT | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

Married. Charles Stewart Mott, 54, of Flint, Mich., vice president of General Motors Corp., three times Mayor of Flint, twice a widower; and Mrs. Dee Van Balkon Fuery, 29, of Detroit, Sumatra-born, Paris-educated editor of Bridle and Golfer, Detroit smart-chart; in Toledo, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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