Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important to realize that only the mechanics will be revealed. The meeting will focus the Freshman's attention, present him with the machinery of course and credit requirements, and expect a little creative thinking in return. It is the first official glimpse given the undergraduate that reveals the direct connection of college courses to earning a living. It may perhaps clarify the some what murky atmosphere surrounding the language requirements and make definite the vaguely ominous prophecies concerning Divisionals...
Supporting Dr. Coffey's testimony was that of Dr. Clarence Cook Little, managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, whose organization is attempting to focus attention on the danger of cancerous growths. Other cancer workers who supplied the committee with information: Drs. Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University. James Ewing of Cornell University, Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon General...
Rejoice, Rejoice! Swinging the telescope to focus upon Rome the Martian would have seen Pope Pius XI distressed by a sacrilege which had been perpetrated in the Holy City itself; but the Papal newspaper Osservatore Romano rejoicing to announce that a portion of God's work is being done even by the Bolsheviks, because they, by their infamies, have brought Protestants and Jews to kneel in prayer for a petition initiated by the Pope...
...University Film Foundation has proved its scope to be practically without bounds. All sorts of pictures, from those of natives and animals of far-off and, consequently, romantic lands to the activities of normal Harvard undergraduates have been under the focus of the lenses of the Foundation. It is to be hoped that the Film Foundation will continue to receive the support which enables it to accomplish its pioneer task of making the movies more than an afternoon's diversion...
...eight consultants with their time at the disposal of the student will allow the workers for a Ph.D. degree to consider the past in the light of present-day experience. The idea of Washington as a place of higher reference scholastically as well as politically, as a new educational focus point, suggests that education may join the ranks of other interests becoming centralized in the national capitol...