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When 11,000 Harvard alumni convened in Cambridge at the Tercentenary celebration in 1936 it was the biggest alumni gathering in history, but was only a drop in the bucket in comparison with the University's 77,748 alumni...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Organizations Contact Alumni | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

...wide open: a four-night Bach Festival, first of its kind in the Northwest. Bach fans heard an orchestra concert, an organ recital, the Mass in B Minor, the St. John Passion, in the University's big Northrop Memorial Auditorium. If the singers were not yet ready for comparison with such seasoned Bachsters as the Bethlehem, Pa. Choir, they were nevertheless remarkably good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bach in Minneapolis | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...offender and his reaction to different kinds of treatment was explicitly indicated by the charts. As a practical test in the courts, Professor and Mrs. Glueck suggest that every second case appearing before a court be disposed of with the aid of the new prognostic tables, affording a comparison with the records made by offenders treated under present methods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Juvenile Delinquent Treatment Urged By Law School Criminologists | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...forced to say that the quality of instruction has degenerated to the point where it consists of some rereading in class of the text and the showing of a few dated movies. This is the real harm in the relegation of instruction to a secondary position in comparison to the reading of emotional political articles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

...Claude E. Welch and Dr. Nathanson are trying to find what period of time must elapse before carcinoma of various sites can be considered cured. This is based on comparison of the life expectancy curve for cancer with the normal life expectancy curve for a type...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

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