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...number of notable defects in this course reaches an all-time high. Laboratory sessions constantly extend over the three-hour period. Quizzes given both in labs and in section meetings are long and unnecessarily frequent. The twice-weekly check-up brings the course down to prep-school level. Section meetings held once a week consist of a twenty minute quiz and a half-hour discussion. Poorly conducted as a rule, they are dull and profitless...
...suggested, no action has as yet been taken. In an introductory course especially, attention should be directed towards clarifying and correlating material for the student. Last year several men were persuaded by the apparent difficulty of the field not to concentrate in Chemistry. Laboratory periods should be limited to three-hour sessions, reading should be associated with the lectures, and section meetings should be made more valuable as a link between lectures, reading and Laboratory work...
...general lineup for the work this year was discussed in detail during a three-hour evening meeting. A plan for lectures by criminal and police heads was announced by Knowleton of the Social Service Committee; he also said that settlement house work would continue as usual. Bolton discussed in detail the work which he plans to have the Freshman committee do this year. This will include Red Cross driving, work which he plans to have the Freshman committee do this year. This will include Red Cross driving, work in social service in the settlement houses, and personnel work among Freshmen...
...nation's salad bowl is the Salinas Valley, a three-hour motor drive south from San Francisco. In the three normal three-month "deals" or lettuce seasons of the year, growers around Wratsonville and Salinas ship as high as 300 carloads of lettuce per day, raise about 25% of the annual U. S. crop. Two years ago a violent strike tied up the Salinas-Watsonville fields. Settlement came with the signing of a contract between the Fruit & Vegetable Workers' Union and the Growers-Shippers' Association. Fortnight ago the contract came up for renewal. Agreement stalled when...
...Topeka for a three-hour talk with the Republican nominee on farm and foreign trade policies went that voluble New Deal outcast, onetime AAAdministrator George Nelson Peek. Revealing that the Republican platform embraced most of the farm and trade views which he had submitted in pre-Convention memoranda to both Republicans and Democrats, George Peek declared of Alf Landon: "He seems to have a good deal of understanding of these problems, but I intend to take no position until after he has declared his views specifically in his speeches...