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...difficult problems. Moreover, there are usually Seniors who are taking the course in preparation for divisional. In the past, the less mature members have impeded the progress of the more advanced students and have often reduced the discussions to dull and unnecessary explanations. The present change allows greater scope for study and permits intimate contact with students of equal ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ECONOMICS A | 10/2/1930 | See Source »

Another momentous period of the year has come to a close. Outside of the Institution of marriage, the machinery of the organized Church, the intricacies of modern education, and the Rotary wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOMENTOUS | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...financing of a purely student publication demand unlimited initiative on the part of editor and candidate alike, and provide a chance for a sound and valuable business ground-work. And this experience, contrary to the popular prejudice, develops men for many other fields outside of advertising. The wide scope which the advertising policy of the CRIMSON taken acquaints the candidate with many different businesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vast Opportunities Offered to Candidates for Business Board of Crimson in Wide Scope of Paper's Advertising Policy | 9/23/1930 | See Source »

...commission endowment amounts to five million dollars, will shortly be increased to ten. With headquarters at Washington, it will be national in scope, will work in co-operation with both state and federal governments. In addition to conserving animals by founding sanctuaries, providing food in bad seasons, it will attempt systematic replacement in areas where birds have become scarce. Influence will be exerted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bird Senator | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...exchange of stock) has published John Dewey's The Quest for Certainty and Alice Grant Rosman's present big-selling The Young and Secret. Minton, Balch & Co., Inc. for the immediate future at least, will be run as a separate department, "benefiting from the wide Putnam scope. Palmer Cosslet Putnam's new partners are Melville Minton. 45. a big-chested, hardworking salesman with a business head; and Earle Balch, 36, the curly-headed, smiling, amiable, pianoplaying, song-singing, artistic half of the combination, the one who gives the tea parties to the authors while Partner Minton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Putnam, Minton & Balch | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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