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...Sterne theory has recently been partly confirmed by showing that temperatures of twenty or thirty million degress are low enough to cause the stars to be explosive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Theodore E. Sterne, Research Associate of Observatory, Describes Sources of Sun's Energy | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

However, it is possible that no innocent student should wind his merry way to the Shubert unchaperoned these days. For there he will encounter nothing but various concoctions all labelled "naughty" and exploiting various and sundry degress of "it". The "Follies" have a butter-and-egg complex, and supplement everything risque with the 100 beautiful legs of the 50 glorious Greenwich models. While it is dernier cri in New York smartness, the closest glimpse one gets of the notorious Village is a night club whose snaky denizens seem to be suffering from the effects of the last rehearsals. Indeed...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

...musical inferiority and real musical worth", strikes my ears strangely. A close acquaintance of many years with Horatio Parker, my friend and associate, the composer of the song selected, leads me to doubt if any "inferior" music ever came from his pen. Music of varying degrees of varying degress of delicacy, yes: but "trivial" music never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Song Contest | 1/26/1926 | See Source »

England has met the problem of the better student by the use of the tutorial system and of the Henor and Pass Degress; certainly Oxford and Cambridge offer unusual opportunities to the student of superior ability. Harvard has anticipated other American colleges in meeting the same problem. To the student of exceptional ability, divisional and the tutorial system offer greater opportunities and make greater demands; it is significant that the statistics for 1923 show a much smaller proportion of men securing degrees in three years. But Harvard cannot compete on fair terms with Oxford and Cambridge until the tutorial system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE TIMES AND OUT | 6/9/1923 | See Source »

...same degree by that university a year later. After instruction in psychology at the University of Minnesota, he became connected with the University of Chicago in 1894 and held various positions there; finally, beginning in 1911, that of Dean of the University. He is the holder of other degress, several as a result of study at Vienna, Paris, and other foreign capitals; of the position of President of the American Psychology Association; of being a member of the committees of the Adjutant-General's Office on Classification of Personnel and Education and Special Training during the war. Prominent in educational...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT-ELECT ANGELL TO VISIT | 5/17/1921 | See Source »

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