Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With the cooperation of the heads of the 28 colleges in New England the committee proposes to insert into the curricula of the colleges vocational work of a sort that will enable the doubtful undergraduate to consider the various fields of vocational activity in the light of his own tastes and abilities, and thereby, guided by advice of men in the field which he prefers, make a wiser choice of a life-work than he might otherwise do. This establishment in the college curricula of vocational work must be very gradual, but the plan was proposed to the representatives...
...which he does not advance, but wastes the best years of his life, wondering why he does not get ahead in the race. It is to prevent such waste of time and energy, and to help the individual know himself, his abilities and limitations, and in the light of these find his proper place...
...young Tibetan engineer, Rugby graduate, who has installed the magic light, was recently reported to be regarded by his fellow natives as in league with the "evil one." His machinery was hurled into a gorge. The work went...
...Professor Robert W. Wood of Johns Hopkins University. The latter, many a layman recalled, is a genius of wide and varied activities. It was he who devised the method now so common of thawing frozen water pipes by passing electricity through them. Color photography and extensive researches on light have earned him important medals. He has studied secret signaling. He has written diverting fiction as well as three volumes on physical optics. His woodcuts are well-known, especially those illustrating the nonsense rhymes, How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers. And besides these things he performed, for many months...
...years." Perhaps it is now giving way to the beginnings of a new one, noted these last fifty years a flair for early specialization. The broad base of the pyramid may be done away with altogether, and the apex will be erected on a scaffolding of light, standard-size steel girders. --New York Times...