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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of attention, not only for those who are directly connected with the University, but also for education throughout the country. It has now successfully refuted much of the initial adverse criticism and in this achievement not the least valuable of its characteristics has been its inflexibility. Improvements in detail and advances in technique have been readily effected without necessitating change in the fundamental outline...
...difference between English 1 and Comp. Lit. 42a and 42b is, for the average honors candidate in English, inconsequential. The latter discusses pre-Shakespearean literature, devoting two or three weeks to Chaucer. The former spends most of its time on Chaucer, with detail of his grammar and allusion, and adds about a month (Fridays during the second half) for reviewing other Middle English writers. Although required only for honors candidates, either of the courses presumably gives enough information for an answer to the first Divisional question. For this reason, both are large courses...
...course deals almost entirely with inorganic chemistry. Accordingly, all the elements and simple compounds are taken up in considerable detail. This includes considerable descriptive work both in the lectures and in the laboratory. The lectures, of which there are two each week, are always satisfactory and sometimes extremely interesting for the most part, than the laboratory work of most beginning science courses. Many lecture-table experiments and descriptions of the commonest industrial processes keep the necessary description from being dry or dull. The one afternoon of laboratory work, which includes a ten-minute test at the beginning of the period...
...less debatable. That the national investment in Muscle Shoals has remained too long in an inchoative stage is a criticism which few would care to dispute. And that flood control is not a quixotic dream the most superficial reveiw of British engineering on the Nile makes very clear. In detail, the Presidential message is sound and desirable enough; but in the abstract, a few uncomfortable difficulties arise...
...other three plans, submitted by the railroads, the New York savings banks and a committee headed by Secretary of Commerce Roper, all called for a Federal "Coordinator" to effect economies in railroad operations through elimination of wasteful competition, duplication of service and facilities. Though differing in detail the plans specified regional Co-ordinators under one potent chief with powers broad enough to modify contracts and overstep anti-trust laws if necessary. With the Administration behind him the Coordinator would always have the power of life & death over the railroads-control of R. F. C. loans, only present source of railroad...