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...avoid this difficulty in future, the Board proposes to establish "validating examinations," to test the worth of such certificates. These examinations would be similar in purpose to those given to candidates for West Point and Annapolis. They would cover the main subjects without conflicting with regular examinations. To be successful, however, the examinations should be genuine indications of the student's quality and not perfunctory tests to be overcome by intensive cramming. If properly given they ought to hasten the day when colleges will no longer be burdened with misplaced individuals...
...University had given credits for courses offered in the School, it might have been more popular and successful. But as conditions exist, it seems best that the Cambridge School of the Drama should discontinue its work for the present. Then, perhaps, the University would establish its own department or graduate school, a more logical solution for the problem...
...some $135.000,000. Church bonds amounting to $6,000,000 or more have been defaulted by twelve denominations alone. Church credit, said le, is none too good; church building projects are being held up by Depression. Director Keeler suggested a remedy: let a small group of rich men establish a fund of $10,000,000, to draw 3% interest, to be lent to needy churches on long-term notes at 4%. The Council appointed a committee to study the matter...
...marks the 69th anniversary of the learned doctor's birth, the 30th anniversary of his presidency of the University. The Nobel Prize could have come at no better time. To Europeans the reward seemed well merited. Dr. Butler is reputedly the man who persuaded Andrew Carnegie to establish the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. No U. S. citizen is better known in European chancelleries, none has been so often honored...
...movement to establish in Manhattan an Irish Cultural Center started in 1927 when a group of Irish and Irish-Americans organized what they patriotically called the Irish Theatre. They took over the Greenwich Village Theatre, gave a noteworthy performance of Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie. Last week, the group carried their plans a step further with the opening of a Museum of Irish Art. Occupying four of the six rooms leased by the Irish Theatre in the Barbizon Hotel, the Museum intends to "contribute the culture and arts of old and new Ireland to the American...