Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Wisconsin, the pensive man in the presidential chair was Dr. Glenn Frank, onetime magazine editor and lecturer. He had been there only a year but that had been long enough for him to decide that the major problem of modern mammoth state universities is how to help the student find a needle of tempered, pointed knowledge in the haystack of a curriculum listing thousands of courses...
...Project" Studies. The article was from Dr. Glenn Frank, who has spent the past year studying at first hand the problems of a modern mammoth state institution, the University of Wisconsin, for whose presidential chair he left a cosy editor's desk on the Century magazine (TIME, May 25, 1925), More than ever impressed with the enormous weight and diversity of the knowledge humanity has been harvesting for itself in the past century, Dr. Frank pondered the problem of acquainting freshman and sophomores with the nature of the entire crop before turning them loose to pitch, thrash and store...
...Passed bills creating Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, by unanimous consent. (Bills went to the House...
...prime feature of the Harvard report was its proposal for modifying the social life of a university of "mammoth proportions" in a way calculated to foster "healthy social intercourse and stimulating interchange of ideas" for the individual. The proposal was this: to subdivide Harvard residentially into six colleges constituted on the English university plan ? six bodies of students, 250 to 300 strong, housed in more or less segregated groups of dormitories, eating in their own dining halls, responsible to their own deans. The assignment of separate faculties is not included in the plan. The advantages were not elaborated beyond...
...dropped the nursery business. He performed millions of experiments in plant-breeding, producing - besides thousands of poor variations, fruitless hybrids, unfixed types and failures - about 150 "creations", of which the most celebrated are the Shasta daisy, thornless cactus (cattle-fodder), mammoth blackberry, mammoth asparagus, everbearing mammoth artichoke and rhubarb, and the Burbank plum. Perhaps his quaintest anomaly was a plant which grew potatoes below ground, tomatoes above. This and similar freaks he did not submit for commercial growth. They soon revert to type...