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Another very important feature of British university life, the so-called tutorial system, is, however, more likely to gain headway in American education Already Harvard is trying to use a modified tutorial system, in which the tutors are supplementing rather than replacing the regular professors...
Boycott Continued. The anti-Calles boycott of all Mexican industry by Catholics continued last week, gained little headway in Mexican cities, began to curtail seriously business in the smaller towns. Catholic zealots substituted for the conventional greeting, "Good morning," last week, the innovations, "Long live Christ!" and "Christ is our King...
...student movement, long deferred, is beginning to make headway in America, but powerful influences have delayed its appearance...
...throngs going to Mundelein will be so vast that two new railroad stations have been built at the town site. Chicago trains expect to convey 300,000 people traveling with two-minute headway. (This will be the greatest crowd ever handled by railroads in one day. In 1901 the Great Eastern Railway of England carried 200 -000 to King Edward VII's coronation, the previous record.) The railways will place 600 special guards at crossovers. Several hundred employes of the Cook County forest preserve will watch cross-roads and dispense bedding, fuel and cooking utensils at the many camp sites...
...Islands. She had used but 30% of the fuel oil any other 660-ton ship would have required without rotors. The rotors were at their best lending power auxiliary to the thrust of the motor-driven propeller, and in high winds off Gibraltar that had given the craft full headway when its motors were helpless. Herr Flettner told also of motor-driven water-pumps, lighting plants and even airships of the future...