Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...influenced by them. The central problem, to create a superior brand of personnel, remains hardly touched. A further step in that direction would be to restrict teaching by women to the first five grades. In the earlier years of education they are naturally more efficient than men. The latter, however, will only be attracted in sufficient numbers by a general salary increase. Until these things are done, it is useless to expect any decisive improvement in elementary teaching, and colleges will continue to do work which ought to have been done years before...
...picture represents students at work in the McKinlock Hall Library, while the other pictures meal-time in the dining-hall. The caption is later qualified by the statement, "How the Students of Harvard University, Cambridge (U.S.A.) Live." The explanation under the latter photograph says, "In the dining-room of one of the student dormitories of Harvard University, which, like most institutions of higher learning in America, owes its splendid accommodations and gigantic establishment to private individuals...
...title course, geographical exploration, is a survey of the field from the time of Humboldt to the present and a discussion of the requirements for exploration at the present time; the latter including physical equipment, field methods, technical background and morale. The technicological courses include a half year each in elementary and advanced topographic and hydrographic-surveying. Another course is in field astronomy, a science which is chiefly valuable in the determination of fixed points, employing theodolite, sextant and astrolabe. Cartography provides training in map projections and drawings, sketching in the field and converting to office maps...
...Noel Coward's Cavalcade. Princess Tananie bought $20,000 worth of jewelry and clothes, including 21 pairs of shoes. The Prince collected bicycle catalogs, conferred lengthily in his suite with cycle salesmen on pneumatic tires and coaster-hubs, developed a fondness for English porridge, consuming three servings of the latter at breakfast before bacon & eggs which he attacked with a spoon...
...that students residing in Dunster House can make use of the Students Club cafeteria in the Business School, a restaurant similar in almost every respect to the new one in Eliot House, while Adams House men are located sufficiently close to the Massachusetts Avenue lunch rooms to make the latter the most convenient for them. Students will sign the customary dining hall slips for their purchases, which will be payable with the term bills. Students not residing in some House unit will not ordinarily be admitted...