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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devotion to Biology, and little or no time left for extended study in other fields or extracurricular activities. The laboratory work will take at least four afternoons a week, and the evenings will generally be taken up preparing notes on the lab work or preparing for one of the frequent quizzes which dot the field. On the whole this had led pre-med students to other fields, and the number of concentrators has dropped slightly to about 93 last year...
...Corp., and announced a new publicity policy in connection with anti-trust investigation. Businessmen have wished Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings and his department would tell them in advance what they were allowed to do under the antitrust laws. Mr. Cummings last week said that henceforth he would issue frequent statements covering: 1) conditions in an industry which he thinks are in restraint of trade; 2) economic results he hopes to get from an anti-trust proceeding; 3) reason he chose a particular procedure-such as criminal prosecution, civil suit, consent decree...
...roads. Practically untouched by human hands, the bill (this one was for $484,000,000) was unanimously passed by the House last week. There was contention on just one point. Michigan's Representative Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.) wanted an amendment that would dot U. S. highways with frequent comfort stations. Opposition came from two Democratic Congressmen, Milton H. West of Texas and Claude A. Fuller of Arkansas, but the clause was passed, 40-38. Said Congressman Fuller: "Whether they are the Chic Sale kind or the kind that the gentleman from Michigan wrote into this bill, we ought...
...average before taking another wife. Educators, public officials and medical men are not far from the average. Clergymen and engineers are quicker, a good proportion marrying again in less than two years. Dr. Abrams explains this by 1) the social advantage of a wife to Protestant ministers; 2) frequent moving of engineers to new locations. Scientists apparently remarry more quickly than any other group. For this Dr. Abrams had no explanation whatever...
Fights in the House of Commons have been almost unprecedented in the 20th Century. Reader Davis is thinking of earlier days, when fights were so frequent that, to keep angry partisans out of each other's reach, two red lines were drawn down the centre of the House of Commons, two swords' lengths (about 6 ft.) apart. When the present building was erected (1840-50), the lines were replaced by strips of red carpet. To this day no member may step off the carpet while addressing the House...