Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspiring loyalty in all, he helped to make the Student Council a dignified representative of college opinion. For the first time young sinners went to him trusting instead of fearing, and the Dean's office became less a death cell and more a source of friendly counsel. He clasped the...
In explaining why a required course in American history was not desirable, Jones branded the suggestion as an "indocrination worthy of Hitler." In place of that, he outlined the democratic experiment of interesting as many students as possible in a program of readings to make the pupils realize the cost...
The method is called parthenocarpy (Greek parthenos, virgin; carpos, fruit). The chemical is indoleacetic acid, or heteroauxin, a famed plant hormone which has been used to stimulate root-sprouting and growth (TIME, Oct.11). Heteroauxin can be made synthetically at a cost of about $3 per ounce. One ounce in very...
Most U. S. burls come from Oregon, principally from the Willamette valley. Biggest U. S. burlman is Alfred Adam Loeb of Portland. Mr. Loeb was the first to ship burls directly to the veneer mills of Europe ten years ago. He now ships about 5,000 a year. Possibly 3...
Dr. Paul H. Buck will speak tomorrow night on "The Experiment of the Southern Confederacy," and Professor Edward K. Rand will deliver a "great author" series lecture on "Horace" Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.