Word: april
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Full worthy of this memorial were the events which the 76th Congress thus celebrated. The ist Congress met on March 4, 1789. Because of the conditions of the roads, and the casualness of Congressmen, a quorum of both Houses could not be mustered until April 6. Their meeting place was Federal Hall at Wall and Nassau Streets, Manhattan (pop. 30,000). President-elect George Washington did not arrive until April 23, was inaugurated April 30. Before the inaugural, Vice President John Adams, having a great regard for ceremony but no precedent to go on, was completely flummoxed. Said...
Harvard graduates from every corner of the country will assemble in New Orleans on April 14 for the three-day convention of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Besides the list of speakers, headed by President Conant, the alumni will be feted at several dinners and given an opportunity to play a couple of rounds of golf...
...meeting will be opened officially in Dixon Hall on Friday evening, April 14, when President Conant will preside on the issue, "Can Education Survive?" The list of speakers includes: Richard M. Gummere '07, chairman of the Committee on Admissions; Howard E. Wilson '30, associate professor of Education; and Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government...
...year was spent in the perfection of the motion-picture technique, and although, as it now stands, the process is complete, all its ramifications and possibilities have not been investigated. By April, it is hoped, according to Professor Walter F. Dearborn, Director of the Psycho-Educational Clinic, and head of the experiment, "that films suitable for the fourth and fifth grades will be on hand...
Because Chancellor Hitler has chased 3,000 Jewish doctors out of Germany and revoked the licenses of the remaining 3,000, the Third Reich faces a serious shortage of physicians. To increase the number of "Aryan" doctors, Hitler last month announced that beginning April first, the period of medical education will be reduced by two full years. Last week he legally recognized Heilpraktiker (healing physicians) over 25 years of age. To practice medicine all a Heilpraktiker need show is an "intuitive ability" to cure the sick and three years of successful work in healing. Purpose of licensing practitioners who would...