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...week opened a pavilion, the Baker Memorial, whose low rates may become the norm for such hospitalization. A bed in a nine-bed ward cost $4.00 a day, in a four-bed room $4.50, in a two-bed room $5.50, in a single room $6.50. These rates supply high-grade sleeping quarters, meals, general nursing, staff supervision, but not private nursing or private medical or surgical care. They are the antithesis of those in Massachusetts General's own luxurious Phillips House* or Manhattan's new Doctor's Hospital (TIME, Feb. 17). Baker Memorial's low charges...
...Southern California Edison Co. gave a laboratory. General Electric is giving the great quartz mirror at cost. Within reason Caltech can get what it needs from U. S. eleemosinary and industrial institutions and its enthusiastic personal backers. Its preeminence as a research and teaching school, the high-grade of its staff and the prestige of its trustees makes this possible. Twenty years ago there was a Throop College of Technology, a secondary polytechnic school, at Pasadena. Arthur Henry Fleming, wealthy Canadian-born Los Angeles lumberman, was president of its trustees. He talked Throop up among his rich Los Angeles friends...
...least a partial remedy for this would be the assignment of a thesis, optional if need be, that would be equal with the examination in determining the final grade. Surely slow, careful thought, extending over some period of time, should be considered as important as the hurried, fragmentary lottings of an examination. Only in a thesis can the mass of detail that is bound to accumulate be properly considered and used to best advantage. And, most important of all, it is only in a thesis that a student can do more than throw back the lectures and the reading. (Name...
...effect in 1931 the student will not be questioned on the elementary courses History 1, Government 1, and Economics A as has formerly been the case with a general three hour examination in the three subjects. Knowledge of these courses will be accepted on the basis of his passing grade when he took them. By the new plan this general examination will consist of an attempt to correlate the fields for examination purposes...
...present the Latin requirement may be met by a special one-hour written examination, or by passing with a certain grade various courses given in College, and it is expected that these same standards will be applied to Greek...