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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Necessarily limited in its initial stages by factors which must invariably be met in all pioneer promotions, the Princeton-Harvard-Yale conference will grow along with undergraduate interest. To insure its continuance as a medium whereby this interest can be expressed the affair has been planned on an annual basis, with Harvard volunteering as the host next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT | 4/23/1936 | See Source »

...list the College annually selects 150 boys, indentures them until they are 18. Moppets as young as 6 are admitted. They live in dormitory groups of 25-to-35, obey a governess who sees that they take a shower every night, change their linen every second morning. As they grow older they branch out into larger sections under masters, live in regular boarding-school dormitories, enjoy open fireplaces, comfortable furniture, phonographs, radios. Except for Pennsylvania's late Governor Martin Brumbaugh, who came on invitation, no ordained clergyman has yet been welcomed within the gates of Girard. Many a clergyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College for Orphans | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...lovers. Nothing loth, they do their best to keep up appearances, soon find themselves actually falling in love. Towards the end of the voyage the ship's radio brings news of the king's assassination in Paris; then denies it. Penthièvre and Penkethman grow more & more ambiguous; Leroy and Cassie remain naive and amorous. When they get to Paris the lovers are first delighted, then worried, by the attentions of these elderly gentlemen, who seem determined to be helpful but not to let them out of sight. After their first night in it, Leroy leaves their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lilies & Languors | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...Newport, Tenn. settled down with their four children in the House gallery, and Mother Parker, undoing her dress, gave her youngest suck. As tactfully as possible the House doorkeeper ushered the jobless family out while Congressmen, torn between personal modesty and political respect for motherhood, felt their ears grow red (TIME, July 8). Last week the luckless Parker family again made front-page news on the floor of the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Manger Birth | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...building. Chemists have broken down the proteins into more than 20 simpler compounds called amino acids. Dr. Rose accordingly prepared and purified all the amino acids he knew of, fed them to baby rats together with synthetic carbohydrates, fats, salts and vitamins. Something was lacking. The animals failed to grow, wasted away, died. Then Dr. Rose succeeded in isolating another protein component: alpha -amino -beta -hydroxybutyric acid. When this was added to their food, the young rats grew and thrived. Thus the Illinois biochemists put their finger on the final, elusive substance that must go into a good synthetic meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rats | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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