Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, an instrument exceeded in size by only two others in the world, will be in operation at the new South African station of the College Observatory within the next two years, it was announced today by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the observatory. The contract for this giant research instrument has just been awarded to a firm in Pittsburgh, Pa., that has made many large telescopes, including the 72-inch reflector at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C., the world's second largest...
...policy of competing for the team title only. The University authorities in charge of athletic policies feel that it is better to engage in the competition for the team title than individual title. In a small way this is a furtherance of the "athletics for all" policy pursued by Director of Athletics Bingham. Besides it is felt generally that the necessity of entering a man in the individual play will materially weaken the team...
...Motion picture theatres are too dark," declared Guy A. Henry, General-Director of the Eye Sight Conservation Council of America, in an article to the Crimson. "People are unnecessarily subjected to eye strain," he asserted, "in poorly lighted auditoriums...
...Said Director J. L. Blumenthal of the bureau of child hygiene, New York City: "The really fat baby has a mass of material that is of no use to him at all in fighting off ills and diseases of babyhood. . . . The grownups, in the interest of health, exercise. . . . Why, then, overstuff the baby so the mother can boast about...
...back of the Art Museum on Huntington Avenue, 835 girls are studying to become private secretaries. Later they will learn the dreariness of this type of work. But as yet they retain their maidenly assurance. And it was in this mood that last week, at the behest of their Director Edward Henry Eldridge, they examined the current prudency of the Ten Commandments. They found that God had graven His Commandments...