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...kept in mind. I should also mention that although I have been very deeply interested in the Tutorial system as it is worked out in the Division of Biology, my direct contact with it has extended the Tutorial system in such a way as to bridge over the gap between the treatment of mature undergraduates and graduate students...
From the standpoint of instruction I am interested in both course and tutorial work, and believe each to be significant. In the sciences the integration of these two forms of instruction is beset by difficulties which are being overcome. A specific bridge to the gap exists in laboratory work, where a kind of informal tutorial work has been going on ever since laboratory courses were given. In science, moreover, the tutor's interest in research is a necessary part of his equipment as a scientist. It is s futile effort (in a scientific field) to separate tutors into teachers...
...monument. As a railroad man in the gaudy tradition of Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill, Leonor Loree was known & feared, but Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill had their big systems and bearded old Mr. Loree had only the smallish Delaware & Hudson and Kansas City Southern. Between them was a great gap. But L. F. Loree was tenacious...
...Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week was held a Tammany Hall Victory Dinner to celebrate last November's electoral success in city, State and nation. On hand and still talking earnestly about economy was Tammany's own John Patrick O'Brien, stop-gap Mayor of New York.* To the tune of "In Old Shanty Town," 1.200 diners serenaded Boss John Francis Curry thus...
...stop-gap King Carol turned to a mediocre Peasant Party politician, M. Alexander Vaida-Voevod, who served as Premier for a time last year, commanded him to form a Cabinet. To outsiders chief interest in this Rumanian shift lay in the fact that M. Vaida-Voevod. when last Premier, nearly signed a non-aggression pact with Rumania's long-standing foe, the Soviet union. With this pact negotiated-lying on the table, so to speak- Moscow cocked a keen, expectant eye on Bucharest...