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...Senior writing a thesis for honors, or pursuing a strictly graduate course, is given the privilege of access to the stacks in Widener. To avail himself of this he must obtain a certificate from his tutor, or from the professor in charge of the course, and present this certificate to the Superintendent of Circulation, who grants the permit for a limited time or number of visits...
Concluded the researchers: "If correspondence schools would set up personnel bureaus and avail themselves of measuring instruments whereby adult students could be guided to suitable courses, their courses of training would meet a sorely felt need in the field of adult education. Until they undertake this service, efforts of the hit-or-miss variety coupled with intensive advertising and sales campaigns must continue to brand most of these schools as merely profit-making institutions. And of more serious import, they are contributing to the formation of an unhappy and maladjusted citizenry...
...obvious that an improved advisory system is imperative; for the choice of concentration field, tutor, and House must all be made in the first year, before it is possible for the student to have formed a competent basis for judgment. An excellent tutor in Mathematics is of little avail to a man whose interest is primarily in Biology or English, concentrating in Mathematics because Math A was his easiest course during his Freshman year. When the problem of the "uninterested tutee" is one of the chief obstacles to the success of the tutorial system, it is pennywise and pound-foolish...
...avail. The amendment was voted down 54 to 36. The privilege of nearly upsetting the Administration's plans was reserved for Senator Wheeler who offered an amendment requiring the Government to buy up to 750,000,000 oz. of silver until a 16 to 1 price ratio was obtained.* The Wheeler amendment was defeated by just two votes...
...father into signing a consent order on the pretext that he was signing his son's release from the Wayne County Training School." Other cases which horrified Mr. Williams: a girl 20, a girl 18, a boy 16, all of whom "objected to being sterilized, to no avail." More data which shocked Michigan: During the past four years 14 boys and 47 girls of the Wayne County Training School have been rendered incapable of passing on their defects to a new generation. At the larger Lapeer Home & Training School 216 males and 688 females have similarly been sterilized. Practically...