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...Beside each, she scribbled numbers, then mailed the sheet to Manhattan's Simplicity Pattern Co. She was reporting on dress-pattern sales in her department - strictly as a favor to the flattering Simplicity salesman who had presented her with a smile and a shiny silver compact. In 100 key U.S. stores, other girls did Simplicity a like favor...
...Beginning" was the most warmly received of the three commissioned works. It is a simple piece, consisting largely of recitative choral chant and of solos in arioso form. Some of the more extended choral passages are in two widely-spaced parts only. A few are more compact. The English declamation, though utterly clear, is not rhythmically idiomatic. It resembles rather Gregorian chant as sung by the Benedictine monks at Solesmes, except that the melodic intervals are neither proximate nor melismatic, lying chiefly between the fourth and the ninth. This constant skipping around is not unpleasant to hear, but it does...
...knits them into a compact group, and they usually stay in that more or less aloof state in the course of professional Astronomy careers. Probably not more than 200 professionally trained astronomers are active in this country at the present time. For the A.B. Astronomer fresh from college, there are few alternatives. Although one became a ballet dancer a few years back, most of them go to work in allied subjects in secondary schools and then work up to Astronomy positions in colleges and universities. Some qualify with only an A.B. for research assistant jobs in industrial laboratories, but this...
...this should be added the comment by George S. Forbes, Chairman of the Chemistry Department, who noted that "our course offerings are compact, and carefully integrated. Our teaching fellows and instructors follow the students' progress closely in the laboratories for the various courses... All department members advise their quotas of concentrators... We feel that our staff performs many of the functions of those officially designated as tutors...
...Status By DepartmentsDepartment General Tutorial Offerings CommentAnthropology Honors Juniors and Seniors NoneArchitectural Sciences Questionnaire not yet receivedAstronomy Questionnaire not yet receivedBiology None Gradual loss of younger men has resulted in "a natural death"Biochemistry Honors Juniors and Seniors Tutorial valuable for superior students, probably not for inferior onesChemistry None Compact course integration, and lab hours do work of tutorialClassics To Half of concentrators Favor unlimited tutorialComparative Philology No regular tutorial Tutorial help given "as an extra" in small departmentEconomics None Will reconsider tutorial next yearEngineering Sciences None Lab work sufficesEnglish Groups I, II, and III No increase plannedFar Eastern Languages...