Word: classrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting phase of research revolves around the enforcement of this law. Who has seen a dry agent? The question is rhetorical; and yet, like the proverbial purple cow, most would rather see than be one. Yesterday, a youth in the back of the classroom, the New York Fraternity Club by name, waved a hand and snapped fingers for attention. According to reputable New York papers, his atmosphere is refined, suave, exclusive. His story was unique: dry agents disguised as college students had invaded his privacy, and while he was blissfully dining, had graciously, quietly removed his choicest liquors...
...degree. He never wrote a learned thesis for the Ph.D. parchment. And, Harvard, foolishly enough, penalized him for it. "Copey" was fifty before he was granted even an associate professorship; sixty-five before the grudging doctors made him a full professor. But the men who met him in his classroom in old Sever Hall, or climbed the stairs to his bachelor's sanctum in Hollis, and the hordes who poured into the Union whenever it was announced that "Copey" would read knew better than the faculty. They knew that "Copey" was one of the supreme teachers of their generation...
...announced yesterday, the garden henceforth will be used for two main purposes. It will furnish in proper condition and adequate quantity fresh and highly varied material for classroom demonstration and laboratory study, especially during the months when such material cannot be obtained from the wild; and, in the second place, the garden will be used as an instrument of research, providing properly prepared beds, as well as adequate cold frame and greenhouse space for experimental cultures in such fields as genetics, embryology, and others...
Voting at Harvard will be held at all the principal classroom buildings throughout the University both Monday and Tuesday. Other college papers which have already signified their interest in this attempt to learn the actual extent of the prohibition problem on American college campi are the Princetonian; the Michigan Daily, the Daily Illini, the Cornell Daily Sun, the Dartmouth, the Pittsburgh Weekly, the Brown Daily Herald, the Howard Crimson of Howard College, Birmingham, Alabama; the Red and Black of Washington and Jefferson College. Polls held by all these papers and at least half a dozen more which are expected...
...salaries paid to people securing positions through his office range from $4000 to $10,000, with a median figure of $5500. These persons are all holders of some Harvard degree, and the positions vary from classroom work to presidential offices. Out of 680 calls for teachers, the appointment office felt itself able to fill 367 with persons of the proper calibre. Of this group there were 140 public school classroom teachers, 119 college teachers, and 97 private school teachers. Besides these actual teaching positions, the office also supplied 77 superintendents and principles as well as 28 vocational counsellor...