Word: boards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other members at present are the following: E. A. Whitney '17, assistant professor of History, and chairman of the board of tutors in the department of History and Literature: F. J. Ryan '24, publicity director of the Harvard Athletic Association; V. O. Jones '28, former president of the CRIMSON and at present sports writer for the Boston Globe; R. K. Lamb '28, executive secretary of the University News Office; R. A. Stout 1L, former president of the CRIMSON; and Bernard Barnes '30, present president of the CRIMSON...
...many months the Eastern consolidation struggle has resembled a chess tournament in which a master plays several opponents simultaneously. Shrewd, lean, aggressive William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania is the chess wizard. Three boards confront him. Behind one sits quiet-voiced Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central; behind the second sits energetic Daniel Willard of the B. & O.; behind the third sit the chubby brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen. On each of the three Boards a different consolidation game is being played. Last week two bold moves were made on the Van Sweringen board. Master...
...magnet at the automatic exchange. If the call is to another dial call, the automatic exchange mechanically connects the call with the proper exchange, number and party, rings insistently. If the dial call is to a manual telephone, the automatic exchange mechanically registers the called number on the big board in a manual exchange, where an operator reads the number, plugs the call through. Because operators are trained to hear numbers, they read them relatively slowly from the call board, a costly and vexatious matter...
...device, demonstrated last week by Assistant Vice President Sergius Paul Grace of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Inc., utilizes the auditory intelligence and accuracy of the manual operators. Instead of the dialer causing letters and numbers on the call board before the operator, for each letter and number he dials he causes a separate drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols...
...seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over radio-station WEAF she now "hears" music by lightfingering a wooden sounding-board. Professor Pierre Villey, blind himself, called her a "dupe of words," characterized her esthetic "seeing-hearing" (by touch-vibration) as "a matter of autosuggestion rather than perception." William James, U. S. philosopher, admired her less philosophically, thus: "The sum of it is that you are a blessing, and I'll kill anyone...