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...there has always been a money cost of going to college. The House Plan has made current the question of what its costs to go to Harvard. For the twenty-years-out graduate who is about to send his son to Harvard the glories of the new Harvard fade a little when he is faced with the facts of increasing costs. By some process of reasoning, the House Plan is regarded as a chief factor in the bringing about of advanced costs. Naturally, the question is asked, "What is the College doing to lessen these costs? What of scholarships, aids...
Power required was one-half watt, which is just enough to light a flashlight. I. T. & T. reported that the micro waves do not fade, and are not affected by fog, rain or other climatic conditions. The company claims that the wavelengths can be controlled so precisely that 250,000 transmitters could broadcast simultaneously. Thus television, which needs many wavelengths, finds a new tool. I. T. & T. intends to commercialize the apparatus at once-for use on ships, lighthouses, airplanes...
...hustled back to Illinois, returned to Washington and the committee 48 hours later with a petition in which some 67,000 husbandmen authorized him to represent their views. As a representative of organized agriculture he was appointed to the Farm Board. His prime tenet: Relieve farmers and Depression will fade away...
...Scandal Sheet" had a great chance for a first rate show, but in the last few reels it went haywire due chiefly to ham dramatics and a few inexcusable scenes. The fade out finds George whiling away the hours in Sing Sing as Managing Editor of the prison paper...
...shades of a late great writer and of others not so great slide and fade across the pages of Robert Nathan, sometimes linger there. Anatole France's is the biggest shadow; lesser ones, not so clear in outline, resemble O. Henry or Richard Harding Davis. The Orchid is like a miniature in enamel: ingenious, smooth, fitted cunningly into small spaces. It is not. a novel but a satirical fable, a grownup fairy story...