Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first night of their stay, while we were out, my roommates, perhaps under the influence of that "luscious liquor" which Mr. Boyd-Carpenter found so prevalent in our academic circles, amused themselves by arranging our study in accordance with an American's concept of an Englishman's concept of an American college study. When we returned, Mr. Boyd-Carpenter found his couch surrounded by beer, gin, and whiskey bottles, the walls covered with choice excerpts from "Ballyhoo" and "College Humor." Mr. Boyd-Carpenter's conclusions bespeak the complete success of the "decor...
...Contrary to the popular concept of the value of a college education, there is little or no material worth in it when applied to earning a living in the world of today," expounded W. P. Montague, visiting professor of Philosophy from Columbia University, in an interview last night. "I do not say that it has no value; I merely say that when we attempt to evaluate education on practical grounds we are basing our proof for this belief on fallacious arguments. In the case of some scientific or trade schools there is, of course, proof that training and learning...
...Federal Reserve is not a bottomless cash box from which countless millions of dollars can be paid out to member banks. Whence, therefore, will come all the money needed to make all the new loans? To this question there is a combination of interrelated answers. The broadest concept of the Glass-Steagall bill is that it will materially enlarge the Federal Reserve's power to stop member bank failures. As failures decline, hoarders of currency would be encouraged to redeposit their cash. Such redeposits. in turn, would strengthen banks and reduce their demands for more loans from the Federal Reserve...
...more general interest in music . . . more glee clubs and more music in homes." At 80 he is taking vocal lessons, loves to gather his family about him to sing old Hebrew melodies of which he knows by memory an enormous number. He did not sing at the testimonial concept...
Sabre-toothed tigers, the Piltdown man, the man in the moon, Depression, shooting stars, drugs, Element No. 87, the universe and an abstruse geometrical concept christened Rac-these and other matters were discussed & debated last week by the National Academy of Sciences, meeting in New Haven, Conn. For the first time in its history the Academy awarded its Henry Draper medal for research in astronomical physics to a woman: Harvard's Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, for her compilation of the Draper Memorial Catalog of 225,000 stars classified according to their spectra. Small Dr. Cannon is still searching them...