Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful history of Oxford and Cambridge colleges shows how much of an educational factor the "collegiate way of life" may be. If all the students in Harvard College were pursuing the same course of study (which was essentially the case before the advent of the elective system) or were all interested in the same general field of knowledge (as is the case in a technical school), then many if not all of the educational values inherent to the House Plan would be lost. Fortunately, in each House there is a representative proportion of concentrators in all the different fields. This...
Personally I am not enthusiastic about an education which is administered by a force pump. I do not believe that, by and large, students of science, let us say, obtain much of permanent value when they are compelled (note, I say "compelled") to take a course in "general literature" or "universal history" or a "survey of western art since 1200"; and I am sure that those of a literary or artistic bent are not educated by being forced to take freshman chemistry or physics...
...blended price." Milk was classified by the use to which it was put-from $2.25 per cwt. for Class I (bottled milk) down to 94? for Class IV-B (American Cheddar cheese), average estimated at $1.65 per cwt. To farmers who knew one gallon of milk cost about as much as another, who distrusted the reports of milk utilization turned in by dealers (although checked by the Department of Agriculture), this seemed an injustice. Many a farmer began to suspect he was being gypped...
...Taxing the American people to provide a way to sell American cotton, wheat and whatnot to the British, Japanese or German people at much lower prices than we pay at home stinks...
...least-heard radio features in the world-regular Far North news and general program broadcasts in English, French, Icelandic, Danish and Eskimo. The station was originally (as was KDKA) a gimmick in the garage of Westinghouse's Dr. Frank Conrad. The place had so much reverberation that Dr. Conrad pitched a tent inside, over the works-a sort of first radio soundproofing. It was 8XS that transmitted the first international broadcast, to Europe via England, on New Year's Eve in 1923. Henceforth WSXK's audiences will have to identify it as WPIT (for Pittsburgh). Other important...