Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place of full tutorial during the Junior and Senior years, students on Plan B. will meet less frequently with their tutor and cover less ground. In order to compensate for this omission, an extra course must be taken. This addition means a return to the course requirements up until 1932, 16 courses plus prescribed English in place of 15 and English...
...local politics, the like of which has seldom been heard since the day of Lincoln Steffens and the muckrakers. On Friday the petition of the Plan E Committee, which under the chairmanship of Dean Landis has obtained over 11,000 signatures, was blocked by the Council on trivial technical ground. Mr. McNamara, president of the body, declared that Cambridge "was not going to be turned into a laboratory of guinea pigs for a lot of theorists" and sat down on his political haunches. Even when the ballot law commission certified the petition of Saturday, Mr. McNamara refused to call...
...Trophy (TIME, Sept. 26). To get to Henry Arnold, Malin Craig passed over eleven senior air corps officers. Shortly before this selection was announced. Chicago Daily Newsman Paul R. Leach reported another result of Oscar Westover's death at 55. The War Department, wrote Correspondent Leach, soon will ground all air corps officers over...
During August and September thousands of horses in fields and race tracks in many parts of the U.S. drooped their necks, banged their heads against the ground, tried to run on their sides, collapsed on the turf. In Massachusetts alone 200 horses died, victims of equine encephalomyelitis. Entirely different are the eastern and western varieties of this disease, although both are caused by viruses which attack the brain and spinal cord, produce inflammation, high fever, and in some localities 100% mortality. Last spring Dr. Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff of Lederle Laboratories at Pearl River, N.Y. and Dr. Joseph Willis Beard...
...satisfy the need of more office space, since previously all professors in the field have been conflicted to a single office on the ground floor, four new rooms were created upstairs. In addition the building received a complete paint job on the interior...