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...Competent tutors must be provided. The academic system at Harvard as it is today is paradoxical, the focal point of everything being the tutor, who is more often than not unsuited to the task. Tutors should be brilliant men with above average minds, who have mastered their subject in its breadth, and are specialists in some phase of it, men who are interested in teaching, and who like to work with young men. They must have attractive and interesting personalities, and should be neither young nor old. And, furthermore, they must be well paid. No man of this calibre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orchids to Dean Hanford | 2/15/1934 | See Source »

...printer at such an angle that the final photograph, which is shaped like a Maltese cross, gives the same scale on the wing photographs as in the center. The Germans have tried a camera with nine lenses, in connection with this work, but due to the short focal length, the scale is rather small, and the results not so good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100-lb. Cameras and Zero Weather All In Day's Work For Geography 36 Men | 11/2/1933 | See Source »

...League of Nations has been the focal point of the course, with attention devoted also to the principles of international intercourse, the World Court, the Economic and Disarmament Center

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE TO COURSES | 9/26/1933 | See Source »

...this play-acting Sato's sentimental little wife was seen to weep. Tokyo's fire engines clanged out to put out imaginary fires in buildings designated as having been "hit" by enemy bombs. Through all this, seven Princes of the Blood Imperial scurried on inspection tours to focal points. That day the enemy planes buzzed back over Tokyo again at 11 a. m., again at 2 p. m. Bystanders gathered by thousands in the public parks. One girl ogling up from a roof fell over the edge to her death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tokyo's Games | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...preventive dentistry are unique. When he reorganized the research department in Northwestern University's Dental School, he took on a metallurgist, two chemists, a pathologist, a physiologist and an anatomist. Ablest of these is pipe-smoking Pathologist Edward Howard Hatton, now the department's director, specialist in focal infection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dentists in Chicago | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

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