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...method of testing reading period work is not the least of the problems arising from the introduction of reading periods in advanced courses. Mid-year and final examinations in these courses usually contain a question of an hour's length which covers the reading period assignment. The time spent on this question is not only entirely out of proportion to the amount of course time spent in the reading period, but this procedure prevents the student from obtaining the most from his reading period work...
Suggestions that a 30-hour week law, to be effective, must contain a minimum wage scale to prevent proportionate pay cuts collided with this stubborn fact: once the District of Columbia had a minimum wage law which in 1923 the Supreme Court annulled on the ground that it violated a citizen's constitutional privilege to contract for his own services at his own price...
Dated from Los Angeles, Calif, and supposed to contain an authentic low-down on the President-elect, this dispatch warned Mexicans to beware March 4 because...
...three more if their work in the first term justified the renewal. Mr. Alexander Agassiz once told the writer that he had such a plan in mind; and the new Houses seem to provide an excellent opportunity for an experiment of this kind. One of them will, in fact, contain a suite of dining, common and service rooms so planned as to be suitable for the purpose...
...Nicolson took his obedient but observant way. He came to have more respect for poets than for potentates. Born in Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took to ink. His first books were biographies of Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, Verlaine. No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument...