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...three lecture rooms now connected with Sanders are Memorial Hall, the New Lecture Hall, and Allston Burr Hall. In Memorial Hall, an amplifier and a loudspeaker have been installed and connected to the existing public address system in Sanders...
Underground lines will carry lectures in Sanders from the control booth there to the New Lecture Hall and a telephone system makes two-way communication between the buildings possible. Another link to lecture rooms A and B of Burr will accommodate an even larger audience. The connection between Sanders and Burr Hall has been made by WHRB's underground circuits...
...viewers last week got a quick briefing on children's blood diseases; CBS's The Search told them how to fight off the perils of old age. Some shows are more enraptured by the physician than the cure. On The Greatest Gift, noble Dr. Eve Allen (Ann Burr) labors five times a week to fight the stuffy prejudice against women doctors; on Janet Dean, Registered Nurse, Cinemactress Ella Raines plays an angel in starched cotton; on Road of Life, Dr. Jim Brent (Don MacLaughlin) applies a platitude with every poultice. CBS Radio boasts Guiding Light and Young...
...Washington (D.C.) Star, Chairman Samuel Burr Jr. of American University's department of education had a few sharp words to say on the subject of competition in the modern public school. After all, said he, "only the best football players are members of the varsity squad . . . There is competition for the cast of the annual play ... It seems that quite a different view of the natural desire to excel applies in the English, algebra, history and chemistry classes . . . We have exalted the average man. We have made it appear that the middle of the scale is the appropriate place...
...Million Pocketed. The oldest bank in the U.S. operating under its original charter, the Bank of the Manhattan Co. was the offshoot of a firm chartered, with the aid of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, to build Manhattan's first waterworks, use any excess capital in "moneyed transactions." To break the Federalist Party's monopoly on New York banking, the water merchants bought (for $30,000) a house at 40 Wall Street (still the bank's address), opened for business...