Word: bios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Karl Landsteiner into the lay Press. Long ago Dr. Alexis Carrel had some small renown as the man who had found a way to keep a piece of chicken heart living and growing through the years. Lately the name of Carrel has been whirled up to fresh fame because Bio-mechanic Lindbergh designed him an artificial heart with which to pump life into human hearts, kidneys, thyroids, ovaries and because the Press knew the newsworthiness of the name of Lindbergh, if not of Carrel (TIME, July...
...immensely important problems. First, the Latin requirement and its prostitution as the basis of distinction between the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees must be weighed in the balance and thoroughly modified definitions for the two degrees established. The present preposterous situation in which a concentrator in Bio-Chemistry may receive the B.A. and a concentrator in English the B.S. must be conclusively abolished...
...Harvard student, about to marry an heiress, were to give up his prospective marriage at graduation in favour of post-graduate work in Bio-Chem, he would be eligible for a nurses training school and presumably for the job of nurse. That is precisely what Loretta Young does in this tale of youth, hospitals, twelve o'clock scandals, overdoses and frequent shots of an oily Florence Nightingale. Boston blue-bloods should take note of John Boles as John Hall, 3rd, and follow his lead with regard to the perfect social marriage by taking a train to Union City, which combines...
...apparent that if the House Plan is to be a success, the Houses must be judged by some criterion other than social. For instance, Lowell has developed intellectual prominence, without a brilliant tutoring staff. Adams' strength lies in the fields of history and government, Winthrop's in the bio-chemical sciences Dunster's and Leverett's in economies, Eliot's in history and literature, If each House is permitted to develop its own atmosphere along these lines, the danger of a social criterion will be largely removed...
Although many do not yet know their field of concentration, 39 said they would major in Economics, and 32 in English. Other leading fields were Bio-Chemical Sciences, History, and Government. One ambitious Freshman decided to live at the Ritz and major in diplomacy...