Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Figures released yesterday by the Department of Bygiene compared the results of the physical examinations of this year's and last year's Freshmen. The two classes were remarkable in their similarity. Figures on the physical condition of members in detail follow: 1934 No. P.C. Tonsils and adenoids removed 596 63. Appendix removed 108 11. Cannot swim 82 8.6 Smoke 381 40. Wear Glasses 354 37. Color Blind 3 .3 A posture 24 2.5 B posture 287 30.3 C posture 379 40.1 D posture 257 27.1 1933 No. P.C. Tonsils and adenoids removed 653 70.8 Appendix removed 90 9.9 Cannot...
...they reached the positions in which they do it. We have also a small, well-selected library of books about a great variety of occupations. In addition, we have established contacts with nearly 1000 successful people living near Boston, who are willing to help undergraduates to know in detail of what their work consists. Students should look upon the office as a source of information upon a wide range of careers, and the methods of preparing for them...
Seas Beneath (Fox). Even spectators not qualified to pass on the accuracy of detail of the naval warfare shown here will have a strong suspicion that Director John Ford has romanticized. All the action is highly theatrical: a jumble of spywork, gunfire, carousal, submarine heroism, with some brilliant photography of sea-scenes. The photography is all that recommends it, for the dialog is inept and the story of the Mystery Ship sent out as decoy for a German submarine and the beautiful German spy who loves a U. S. officer but sees him kill her brother in the course...
...lady once informed in detail of the workings of a bicycle, how the motive power was transferred by chain and cogs from the pedals to the rear wheel, reflected and inquired, "I see; but what makes the front wheel go?" The workings of the CRIMSON candidate is an open secret; hundreds of him have pushed open the green doors of University Hall: from the top floor of the Baker Library across the Charles to the inner formidable recesses of Langdell Hall he has wended his way almost daily throughout the academic years. Less perhaps is known by those who serve...
...much emphasis is laid on the problem of devising examinations in English that shall serve adequately as tests of achievement and as educational stimuli. A rereading of those trenchant paragraphs and a survey of examining processes here in American schools have prompted the Commission to consider in some detail the educational value that examinations may have in secondary-school English curricula. In this section are recorded some of the results of this reflection as it has focused itself upon two major phases of the problem: (1) the question of attitudes; and (2) the principles that may govern the formulation...