Word: listings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee wanted someone with executive ability, personality, contacts and nerve; someone who had taken no part in the bitter internal strife that preceded reorganization of the Exchange (TIME, Oct. 17); someone who, with all these qualities, could be hired for $25,000 a year. While painstakingly going through a list of 50-odd names, the committee sneaked away from Curb headquarters to meet in unpublicized seclusion, thereby got to be known as the "Silent Five." Last week the Silent Five agreed on George Peters Rea and even cynics cheered...
...attempt to end what has been described as "discrimination" between men nominated by the Council, and those named by petition, the list drawn up by the nominating committee will not be released until the end of a week during which the Council will accept nominations by petition bearing the signatures of 35 of the nominee's classmates...
Editors and candidates of the CRIMSON, who have been circulating the poll, check each undergraduate off a college list as their questionnaire is collected. The final tabulation should be completed by the early part of next week...
...tutoring schools which now exist in the Square. This investigation should be an inquiry into the methods which are now used by the cram bureaus, a survey of whether or not they comply to the standards of legitimate tutoring. If they do, they should be placed on an approved list and recommended to all students. If not, they should be summarily blacklisted, and any students who frequent them or use their products should be placed upon probation. The Crimson feels confident that, with few exceptions, such an investigation portends the latter fate for the tutors now swarming along Massachusetts Avenue...
...practices of the schools themselves, with the indolent students who use them, and with faults in the academic curriculum: worthless teaching or chaotic course organization. Elimination of the last means a body blow to the tutoring evil. Within a few days the Crimson will submit to President Conant a list of courses which have been indicated in its poll as possessed of glaring faults. There should be speedy investigation and remedy of these evils...