Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Edward Caldwell Moore, since 1901 Parkman Professor of Theology, and George Fillmore Swain, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering since 1909, have resigned and will become Professors Emeritii, according to an announcement made at University Hall yesterday. The resignation of Professor Swain takes effect March 1, 1929, that of Professor Moore on September...
...colleges after the fashion of Oxford and Cambridge. And it may well be that salvation lies that way. Certainly the system seems to work in England, for like it or not, English universities leave certain characteristic marks on their graduates. One thing they have which must exert a profound effect upon the undergraduates--age and tradition...
Practically all the clamor was for increased duties. Chester H. Gray, chief lobbyist of the American Farm Bureau Federation, called for general upward revisions averaging 100% higher than present rates on agricultural commodities. The argument, in effect, was: "We want these rates?because we want them." Few if any witnesses paused long enough on the stand to give reasons, to detail the difficulties of foreign competition, comparative costs of production. The fanner's attitude was that he was entitled to these increases by virtue of his vote for Herbert Hoover and that technical explanations were nonessential...
...Packard to depend upon the energy set free in the individual cell (which causes the cell's death); rather than upon the wave length of radiations. Small doses over a long period kill some types of cancer cells and do not hurt healthy cells. Ultraviolet rays increased the effect of cancer-causing, irritating substances...
More important than the merger itself was its possible effect upon the status quo existing in the eastern railroad field. There are four main systems: Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio and Nickel Plate (Van Sweringen). Four years ago these four railroads held conferences in which the eastern railroad field was tentatively divided among them, but the negotiations were abandoned chiefly because the Pennsylvania did not believe that it had received its proper share of the short lines. Since the failure of these negotiations, no decisive merger movement has taken place. Last fortnight, however, the New York Central secured...