Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...responsibility of selection rests with a committee of several different persons it would make it difficult for these men to get adequate explanation of their exclusion. False impressions of favoritism on the part of some members of the committee would be allowed to flourish, and in general the situation would be unfortunate...
While the Houses ought not to be in all respects exactly alike, or precisely of the same size, they should in general be formed on a similar pattern. It is intended, therefore, that each should contain two hundred and fifty undergraduates, more or less, about equally divided among the three upper classes. They will be admitted to the House as sophomores, and although a transfer to another House for proper reasons may not be excluded, they will normally make it their home throughout the rest of their college course. They will be required to take, or rather...
...beginning, about 5000 volumes carefully chosen from all fields of study in which students are interested. It is expected that practically all the books ordinarily used in tutorial work or in work outside of classes will be included, and, in addition, standard reference works and books for general reading...
Eielson to the Rescue. Icebound off Cape North, Siberia and 500 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska, were two ships containing 14 men and a maid, also $1,000,000 worth of white fox, squirrel and other Siberian furs. At Fairbanks was Carl Ben Eielson, Arctic and Antarctic flyer, now general manager of Alaskan Airways. To the rescue flew he, took off the furs and the humans...
Professor Shapley is delivering a series of lectures at the College of the City of New York which will terminate on December 18. His general subject is "Flight from Chaos" and the series includes lectures on "The Microcosmos", "Concerning Planets and Their Fate", "The Ends of the World and Beyond", and "the Cosmoplasma...