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...does, while Harvard in Massachusetts and Dartmouth in New Hampshire are both in the influence of Boston. This sounds far-fetched, but there is truth in it. Harvard and Dartmouth are distinctly New England universities. Yale is ceasing to be one, and Princeton, of course, never drew any considerable fraction of its students from north of New York. While Yale has probably regarded its contests with Harvard as the most important on its schedules, there has been no disposition there to belittle-or underestimate the historic rivalry with Princeton, and the cultural thrust of Yale has tended more and more...
...telephone company was not willing to divulge information concerning the expense of the structure, although they admitted yesterday that this item will be only a fraction of the expense of over-hauling the 25,350 telephones in Cambridge, and of changing to the dial system...
...advised, "can be partly accomplished by the use of weaker light bulbs." Paradox": 700 mi. south of Moscow the Dnieper Hydroelectric Plant, star turn of the Five-Year Plan, is able to generate today more current than all Moscow could waste, is unable to run at more than a fraction of capacity because factories designed to use its giant power have not yet been built within range of Dnieprostroy...
...merely to master the present body of knowledge, but to increase it. Ideally, many courses, now open to graduates ought to exclude them, since such courses frequently take a year or half-year to dole out information which the student himself could assimilate in a fraction of that time. (History courses are notorious offenders in this respect.) At the worst, such courses ought to direct the graduate to fruitful subjects of original research; these are frequently remote from the main body of the subject. The undergraduate's aim, to the contrary, is more modest, and the task of the professor...
...loans provided two-thirds of the Hillside capital. The other one-third came from Starrett Bros. & Eken Inc., building contractors, and Nathan Straus Jr., who provided the land, an old farmsite on the Boston Post Road, at a fraction of its appraised value...