Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organizing the students into a more compact group and promoting democracy, along with the installation of a tutorial system similar to that at Oxford is the primary purpose of the House Plan...
Edward Stephen Harkness, Yaleman (1897), charitarian, whose mother gave Yale its famed Memorial Quadrangle, donated a fund, reputedly more than $12,000,000, to Yale for the development of a ''house plan." Last year he gave Harvard $13,000,000 for a similar purpose (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). Total Harkness benefactions to date: about...
...evidence of the Empty Seat Problem and the operators' determination to solve it, even during the sparsest flying season of the year. Other transport companies are trying analogous traffic stimulators. Last month Universal offered mileage books at exactly the railroad-Pullman rates. Last week Western Air Express offered similar rates to all public officials along its line. Colonial Airways offered its passengers freedom from tipping, and hot soup...
...lisande, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde). In To sea the plot hinges on whether Tosca will give herself to Scarpia to save Cavaradossi. Double beds are the most important properties in Der Rosenkavalier. Don Giovanni is a series of rakings. Yet an opera company which eliminated these and similar operas would find itself with a sorely limited repertoire...
...itself having a preemption on academic Aeronautics. Last August N. Y. U. roused itself when Northwestern University at Chicago set up an Air Law Institute on the model of the Koenigsberg Institut für Luftrecht, established in 1924 as the world pioneer. N. Y. U. promised itself a similar institute for next autumn. University of Southern California's similar decision seemed a murmur from across the continent...