Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still are burdened by the distribution requirements of the college. Under the reorganized plan the man who intends to make of engineering a vocation will get the major portion of his training in concentrated form in the Graduate School of Engineering. For the man who merely wants a bit of knowledge on the subject some of the present courses in Engineering Sciences can be retained in the college curriculum. These can be designed for men not going further in the subject in the same manner in which Biology A is not intended for men concentrating in Biology or Zoology...
...another the little quail also a topotypical speciman. There is an abundance of small Wallaby here, an island race of Macropus eugenii. . . Our two weeks passed very quickly and pleasantly, though water was very scarce and we were limited to about two cups a day, which is a bit thin when one is ranging about in hot weather...
...plans are still a bit hazy for the more distant future. At this moment our luggage is being carted away to the Railway Station for the night train to Margaret River in the extreme Southwest--said to be good country--but all West Australia is badly "shot" in many ways. I hope to get bats there at last, also fossils are known from the caves, etc. Probably we turn east again by late November, when Schevill and I plan to get to Alice Springs in very central Australia for desert things we are told occur here. We hope to make...
...train those found deficient in some courses. Many students did more work than was expected of them. Many faculty members also worked "overtime." Few complained. Chief complaint from students was that they were "advised" to do more work than they had time for. To them President Hutchins offered another bit of advice : "You have freedom to go as slow or as fast as you wish. The University attaches no disgrace to a longer stay in the college than two years. The city of Chicago has . . . educational opportunities which may very well be more valuable to you than a formal course...
...Carrel mentioned tests which give precise indications of an individual's biological (not chronological) age. If a spickle of flesh is put in a certain kind of culture medium, the spickle will grow for a time. The time and speed of growth indicate the "residual energy" of that bit of flesh. The younger the individual, the faster and longer the growth. A similar test is how long a wound takes to heal. Young people heal more quickly than old. Dr. Pierre Le Comte du Noüy of the Paris Pasteur Institute, one-time Rockefeller Institute colleague...