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...Roosevelt was able to announce that William Vincent Astor had acquired a substantial interest in the company, that an affiliate, Baltimore Mail Steamship Co.. was being formed to operate a Hamburg-Baltimore service (TIME, July 21). And a month later it was rumored that Roosevelt Lines was entering wider seas by purchasing control of I. M. M. (TIME...
...Freshman courses might he adjusted to the needs and aptitude of the individual, thus providing for the Freshman within a course some of the advantages given the upper classman within his broader field of concentration under the tutorial system. If the obstacle of expense can be overcome, a wider use of the preceptorial method offers a most promising method of improving instruction in Freshman courses...
...styles with a wide-shell radiator, motors with fuel pumps, greater speed and acceleration. Cost: $535 up. Packard in its line of eights showed small change in body design but a new fuel pump which provides a steady feed and prevents boiling of the gasoline. All new Packards have wider and longer springs, automatic chassis lubrication. For the first time Packard is showing its own custom-made bodies. Prices: $2,385 up. Hudson worked two years on the new riveted body for its eights. All the exterior hardware has been revised. In the motor, show points are: bigger bore, labyrinthine...
Lincolns are longer, lower, wider, have freewheeling. They also have an "air-scoop" radiator...
...poor organization. Last year the lectures were ably presented and by the far the most interesting part of the course, while the section meetings were for the most part poorly handled and even of definitely negative value. The section meeting discussions, instead of leading to a better understanding or wider knowledge of the subject, more often led to confusion. The section men were generally well-grounded in their subject, but more interested in their own research than in the course, and took little pains to correlate their own knowledge and ideas with the material presented from the lecture platform...