Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Student epicureans often have had thoughts, many of them unspeakable, about the House dinning halls. And even the most unimaginative have had dreams of a highly colorful if distressing nature. But none of these mental gymnastics, however fancy-free, bear comparison with the actual occurrence...
...curriculum proposed is to be practical rather than theoretical. Especially significant is its inclusion of a course in the actualities of politics. "Such a course," says the commission, "should not follow the usual lines of academic instruction by discussing such topics as public opinion, electoral procedure and formal party organization, but should endeavor to acquaint the student with the actual political situations which he is likely to encounter during his later career. It should aim to give him a clear insight into the workings of the politician's mind as well as an acquaintance with the politician's technique...
Specific suggestions for tutorial reform were proposed and included the following: 1. Full tutorial program for all students in their sophomore year, with weekly conferences the next two years for those who demonstrate ability to profit from these conferences. For others, a meeting only half as often, but actual tutorial work, and not just a continuation of the Freshman advisor system...
...Manhattan, Adrian Hoffman Larkin, Virginian Board Chairman and trustee of the Rogers estate, laconically announced that 75% of the Virginian's common stock had been sold to interests identified with Andrew William Mellon. The consideration, said Mr. Larkin, was in excess of $31,000,000. Actual purchaser was a group headed by Koppers Co., Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates and First Boston Corp. The presence of First Boston (see p. 52) irr what was otherwise a pure Mellon deal could be explained by the fact that that big underwriting concern plays banker to Eastern Gas & Fuel. Though the Mellons bought...
Already serving the purpose which the Littauer School proposes for itself, are six fellowships here at Harvard financed by the Rockefeller Foundation. They include two years of graduate instruction in courses appropriate to public administration, but interspersed between those two is a year of actual internship at some post in Washington. They too are still in the experimental stage, and there is as yet no full-fledged product of the system. But the first man to enter internship (There was only one the first year.) succeeded so well with his work for the Social Securities Commission that he stayed...