Word: extention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant last Spring appointed a committee to study and make a report on the tutorial system. The general feeling prevalent at that time was that the system should be curtailed to a certain extent and that men not out for honors, who were not particularly brilliant students, should be deprived of the benefits of the tutorial system. That is an "A" and "B" plan was suggested, whereby good students would be given full tutorial instruction and less brilliant men would be put under plan "B" and get no intensive work with their tutors. Such an arrangement has been...
What the final outcome of these improvements will mean depends to a large extent on the initiative of the present incumbents of the Yard. If the advantages of the new set-up lead to greater support of class activities, they will prove of lasting value. But if Freshman interest diminishes, the changes will work like New Deal panaceas--stimulating but not satisfying. In any event the way has been paved for a "more abundant life" in Freshman year, and the spirit of cooperation can make the innovations permanent and successful...
...whole, however, the skill of his characterization is minimized to a great extent by the adaptation of the play. Apparently unwilling to sacrifice much of the text usually cut, Mr. Schuyler Watts, who prepared the script, has run several of the scenes together, so that there are only three acts instead of Mr. Shakespeare's five. Thus the emotional stress is carried from scene to scene with scarcely a break; and the rise and fall in pitch that is so noticeable in reading is almost completely lost. Still with all this running together of the scenes much of the original...
...Federal taxes paid on all the telephone telegraph, cable and radio message; on all electrical energy for commercial consumption; on cigars, cigarets, and distilled spirits (to the extent that the commercial of these products is inevitable); on cameras, firearms, perfumes, fur-trimmed articles (costing over $75) and mechanical refrigeration-approximate number of taxes...
...France, the Blum government seems to be trying whole-heartedly to make the agreement workable, apparently letting the franc reach its "natural limit" between the maximum and minimum stated values in gold. As evidence of its sincerity it cut tariffs yesterday to the extent of 15 to 20 per cent. There will be howls of rage and vigorous pressure applied upon the government as a consequence of this action, but, provided the Blum government isn't unhorsed in the kaleidoscopic changes of French politics, there is some hope of having stable monetary markets. However enduring the present French government...