Word: interest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world of commodity markets, where millions of eggs are traded every day, few traders had time for onions. Not until 1942 was the onion even listed on Chicago's big, bustling Mercantile Exchange, and there was so little interest (a mere 600 carlots traded v. 19,000 carlots of eggs) that it was subsequently dropped...
...This . . . point of interest finds parallels in, for instance, weather prediction or even in cosmology, where the basic difficulty is rather a mechanical one--arising from the degree of appropriateness of the mathematical system applied and the onerousness of using it, granted data which are sufficient. Beyond this is the second focus of interest, essentially more attractive and more stimulating. It centers upon the possibility of creating models of individual biological processes. Such models, both mathematical and material, have of course played a considerable role in general physiology,--as aids to the clarification and the concreteness of thinking...
...problems were thrashed out in three types of meetings-15-man round tables for actual problems, e.g. discrimination in college admission policies; "commissions" for broader areas of student interest (international affairs); and "plenary" sessions for topics of an even wider scope...
This year for the first time the Advocate has adopted an editorial position. Certainly this is a valid move. A college literary magazine with a tradition as old as the Advocate's should take interest and express opinions in college affairs. Last year's article on "The Jew at Harvard," and later the discussion of the club system, were directed toward this end. By editorializing on some of the controversial problems of college life, the Advocate gives impetus to its descent from the yellow pedestal of pure letters...
With the impact of America's position in Europe becoming steadily larger, interest in the program of the Seminar is steadily growing. Not only has the Seminar achieved a high reputation with European teachers, but more important, the 85 students here have been devoted to finding out just as much as possible about the United States during their six-week stay...