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...Cambridge, Mass. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard University confessed that no one recognized him when he attached himself to a group of some 20 tourists for a three-hour conducted tour of the institution, that he had thoroughly enjoyed hearing the guide point out his home, his onetime office...
Blonde, 17-year-old Louise Booth Morley, daughter of Author Christopher Morley and a senior at Manhattan's Hunter College High School, took a three-hour examination given by the League of Nations Association to students of 1,248 high schools, made the best mark, won a trip to Europe...
...Chemistry being the rank offender. Under present conditions the University Catalogue of Courses is valuable for just one thing: look in it to see what the length of your laboratory periods WONT be! University Hall is guilty of at least carelessness, if indeed nothing worse, when the Catalogue indicates three-hour laboratory periods for Chemistry A B, while experience invariably shows a period of from four and a-half to five hours to be the normal requirement. In the interest of accuracy, as well as honesty, the work assigned in such courses should be scaled down to fit the announced...
Florenz Ziegfeld did some first-rate glorifying in his long and spectacular career as producer of musical extravaganzas but never did he attain the dizzy height of opulent glorification which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have reached in their three-hour film biography of "The Great Ziegfeld," which is now running at the Colonial Theatre. In comparison with this musical of musicals previous super-productions fade to the class of colossal on a small scale...
...London last week British Broadcasting Corp. and Baird Television Ltd. rushed preparations to open an experimental television station this month in Alexandra Palace atop a hill in North London. About July 1, when manufacturers have had a chance to test their sets, the station is expected to start three-hour daily programs. British enthusiasts, who call themselves "televiewers," have been promised sets...