Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anderson used to call himself a storyteller, but that was long ago. It is seven years since he wrote a novel, four years since he retired to Marion. Va. to run two country newspapers. Sensitive as a weathervane to the intellectual current of the day, but dizzied beyond his normal bewilderment by conflicting winds of doctrine, he has been doing his unlevel best to understand and express what, if anything, the U. S. is driving at. Though he has always sympathized with the individual Americano aspiring to be an individual, he has been impressed by the intelligentsiae preoccupation with Communism...
...work of the placement bureau has been helpful in finding positions for graduates especially in a depression year. In a normal year the placement bureau finds positions for about 50 per cent of the men graduating, but this year, the proportion is much larger and in addition, it has been very much harder to find positions. Other men are usually able to secure their own jobs. Last spring, the School encouraged the second-year men to start looking for jobs on their own initiative...
Died. Dr. John Merlin Powis Smith, 65, Professor of Semitic Languages & Literature at University of Chicago; of a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard S. S. Laconia in New York Harbor. In 1927 he edited a modernized Old Testament, published it in normal book format...
...special ability would be appointed with ample stipends for three year terms, but he believes in the necessity of making some provision within the University for scholarship as a life career. To this end he suggests the creation of an Institute of Research, appointment to which would be the normal goal of the prize fellows...
...vacancies result partly from normal cancellations and partly from the fact that the number of students per suite has been increased in certain cases, in order to make possible a lower average rental, and provide more rooms for students of limited means," the statement reads. "The present figures must be regarded as tentative, since various changes and adjustments are still being made, and the figures for the year are being carefully reviewed by the seven House Masters...