Word: normale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are signs of change in the Harvard Monthly besides its new form. It is nearer the normal magazine in shape; its decorations have grown more seemly; but that is not all. The October issue shows an excellent and largely successful attempt to achieve the live yet dignified spirit of a good monthly review. Quite evidently the Monthly is through, for a year at least, with being a literary safe-deposit vault. Under the new board it appears bent on emerging from those purple shades where the pleasant but inconsequent art of canning the "best literary product of the University...
...number of scientific works are announced, most important of which are "The Harvard Health Talks" series; "Material for the Study of Self," by Professor Yerkes, of the University, and Professor Daniel Wolford La Rue, of the Pennsylvania State Normal School; and a "Physical Laboratory Manual," by Dr. Chaffee, instructor in Physics and Elemental Engineering here...
...Some Preliminary Figures on the Retailing of Shoes) was issued in May, 1913, based on the records of 130 stores that were fully comparable. In this bulletin were given the highest and lowest operating figures found for ten items--gross profit, total operating expense, delivery expense, stock-turn etc. Normal figures for these items were given, and, still further, figures were set as standards generally attainable because already attained by an efficient group large enough to be significant. It is in the providing of standards that the Bureau performs its greatest service, excellent as may be the accounting system...
Rescoe Lambert West '14, of Millis, prepared at Needham High School and at the Farmington State Normal School in Maine. He is 22 years old, was a member of his Freshman team, of his Junior interclass team, and of last year's University team. He is president of the Debating Council...
...Wichita, Kan.; Howard Tarbell Nickerson, of Dorchester; Lloyd Adams Noble, of Yonkers, N. Y.; Adriance Bush Nolan, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles Watkins Simms, of Watertown; John Aloysius Sullivan, of Dorchester; Fred Sanborn Thorne, of Gardiner, Me.; Roger Eddy Treat, of Fitzwilliam, N. H.; Guy Cranston Weeks, S.B. (National Normal Univ.) 1897, of Dayton, Ohio; Charles Weston, of Merion Station, Pa.; Robert Dunster Whittemore, of Cambridge; Howard Horr Williams, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio...