Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interests and friendship that bind together the traditional "ivy colleges". In times of economic and social duress, with politicians and patriots scornfully hooting at the intellectual leadership of educational institutions throughout the country, the great universities are called upon more and more to take an active hand in the conduct of national affairs. By enthusiastically sponsoring the forthcoming colloquium on "Government and Economic Stability", the college newspapers wish to bear refreshing testimony to the unified aims and purposes of colleges in general, and in particular to the solidarity that exists among the "big three...
...York State Bureau of Securities. Not until the day after the injunction was obtained last week did the gong on the rostrum above the floor of the Exchange bring trading to a halt for the formal announcement that Partner Meighan had been suspended for three years for "conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade in that his firm . . . had engaged in reckless and unbusinesslike dealing. . . ." Later the New York Curb Exchange suspended McCaffrey's Curb members...
...service when Graves, just out of public school, joined the battalion as an officer. With better luck than most veterans (Graves calls it a "20,000 to 1 chance"), Richards fought through the entire War without missing a battle or stopping a bullet. He won two decorations (Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal), was known as "a good man," but never applied for a promotion and never got one. After the War he wrote his personal account of it (Old Soldiers Never Die, as yet unpublished in the U. S.) and sent it to Graves for his opinion. Graves then urged...
...establishment of the new kind of Master of Arts degree given jointly by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Education marks a revolutionary change in the method of training secondary school teachers. The administrative board which will conduct the work for the degree and will choose the scholarship winners consists of President Conant, George H. Chase '96, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, William E. Hocking '01, professor of Philosophy, William C. Graustein '10, professor of Mathematics, Dr. Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, Henry W. Holmes...
John J. Slocum, in charge of editorial matter, is lacking many of the articles which are listed in the table of contents. Since he considers the inclusion of this material essential, the Album cannot go to press until his whim is satisfied. Consequently, he will conduct his own drive this week to evoke literary output from the moguls of undergraduate activities...