Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Yale founded the first U. S. counterpart of the most famed extracurricular activity in the world-the Oxford Union. Like its model, the Yale Political Union will be a parliamentary debating society with members seated by parties, ruled by floor leaders. Predicted the Yale News: "Those hundreds of Yale men who revel in scheming, in 'packing,' in every crooked practice known to the county boss, will have a paradise especially made for them." Less cynical Yalemen, who know what a forcing ground for M. P.'s the Oxford Union has been, could find potential...
...public lecture on "Site Planning for Low-cost Housing" will be given at the Harvard University School of City Planning this morning at 11 o'clock, by Henry Wright, of New York, N., Y., noted architect who assisted in the development of the model town of Radburn N. J., and the Buhl Foundation Housing Project of Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Wright holds the opinion that row houses in small units are preferable to struggle family houses for low-cost housing. He was in charge of the site planning of Radburn, the so-called "New Town for the Motor...
...most recent of Jeans' books about the great cosmic beyond, or to be more precise, the great around, one fins a model for popular scientific writing. Beginning with the origin of our earth as a ball of flaming matter, he traces its history to the present, pierces the atmosphere, travels to our moon, to the planets, to the sun, beyond our stars to stars infinitely greater, and finally to the nebulae, those gigantic whirling masses of worlds unborn, and thus in a sense returns to the beginning...
Lawrence Veiller of New York City, Secretary of the National Housing Association, editor of "Housing," and one of the world's leading experts in the housing field for the past 35 years, will give a public lecture on housing and city planning, including a discussion of slums and model tenements, at the Harvard University School of City Planning today at 11 o'clock...
...Owen's style, while not as yet distinguished, is adequate for the purpose. The argument moves along clearly and succinctly and the book may well be taken as a model treatment of the sort of question it attempts to handle