Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading periods of the scholastic year scheduled for two weeks duration, best results for both instructor and student will be obtainable only by granting that entire time for reading in the individual's major course of study alone. Sophomores will devote the period to that subject in which they expect to major or in which they are most interested...
...calloused world. The head of the bureau suggests that the reason for the failure to place more men in the last two graduating classes is that those men either refused to believe that conditions beyond the cloister were as bad as had been represented, or had reason to expect that the family budget would somehow permit them to spend a peaceful year in the graduate schools. If one reads the correct meaning into the statistics, it has taken two years for college men to become conscious of the fact that the Depression was anything more than a blemish in newspaper...
...have overlooked, and since it is handled with skill and enthusiasm, If I Had a Million gives the impression of being a startlingly original picture as well as clever and interesting. John Glidden (Richard Bennett) is a crusty millionaire, infuriated by the avarice and incompetence of the persons who expect to inherit his money. Instead of making a will he decides to distribute his fortune, $1,000,000 at a time, to persons selected at random from the telephone directory. The first million goes to a butter-fingered salesman (Charles Ruggles) in a china store. He buys himself a cane...
...Cosmic meteors, appearing in the earth's atmosphere, coming from interstellar space and wholly independent of the solar system; (2) The existence of vagabond stars, intergalactic tramps, at the borders of the galaxy; and (3) The groupings and streams of the galaxies throughout the metagalactic structure, where we should expect uniform individual distribution...
College teaching receives helpful and protective criticism in a report from a survey being conducted by the American Association of University Professors. The report maintains that university teaching suffers by being put second to research. Contrary to what one would expect, it states, professors "working on the frontiers of knowledge in their own fields. . . cling tenaciously to traditional habits of thought when their work as teachers is concerned." According to the report, professors, in order to favor their own original work, disregard any consideration of teaching problems. The departmental system. It is concluded, is the "key log in the educational...