Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of the school year, the University made its only book bequest to the non-residents, presenting them with eight copies of a book required for outside reading in one of the history courses. Although these eight books were widely read, they make up all of the Center's library. Considering that there are almost three hundred students who use the Non-resident Center, the University should supplement the cafeteria and the common room with a reading room...
...History and Economics, and for the one in Government and Economics. Government Regulation of Industry is the most popular; International Relations and American Constitutional History are next. In theory their scope must be extensive in order to allow a student enough wall space to hang his knowledge, yet in eight years of experimentation examiners have found that in practice they become merely repititious tests of course material. This ill situation may be cured in one of two ways, either by abolishing correlation exams or by improving them. The latter, because of Harvard's ideal of a broad education, is much...
...name, Bette (pronounced Betty), was a custom-made diminutive of Elizabeth. Her full name is Ruth Elizabeth, after her mother, Ruth Elizabeth Favor Davis. When Bette was eight her parents were divorced.* Thereafter Bette & Barbara lived with Mrs. Davis, known affectionately as Ruthie...
...tanks, freight cars, automobiles, beer barrels, stoves, refrigerators, signs. Republic's new mill is designed for "tailor-made" production to meet the special demands of each customer. Raw steel arrives at the plant in slabs as long as 16 feet, as thick as six inches, as heavy as eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that echoes the whole length of the plant, a slab slides from the furnaces' fiery maw onto the world's widest roller...
...predicted in these columns that the majority of the applicants would seek to take courses in economics, government or related subjects. The news from Cambridge is that this prediction was justified. Of the 312 journalists, from forty-four states, who have expressed a desire to study at Harvard, ninety-eight select economics, ninety-six government and forty-three history. English comes next with thirty-six. We can remember--it was only a few years ago--when it seemed that every young man in journalism wanted to be a critic of the drama. But only three out of the list...