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...between Dean Hanford, Dean Leighton and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr., Homer D. Peabody, Jr., and Spencer Klaw of the Freshman Committee was that College enrollment will definitely be cut down from the present figure of 3700 to 3500 in the next few years, which will considerably scale down the number of would-be House members living outside...
...relief troubles by discharging 4,000 of its 5.000 Toledo workers." This statement creates a wrong impression. The flat glass industry has felt the full force of this depression and operations every where have, of necessity, been sharply reduced. Our company was compelled to lay off a considerable number of its workers - most of them temporarily - but there is quite a difference between such a layoff and a "discharge...
Last week Lawrence Augustus Wilkins, director of foreign language study in New York City's public high schools, announced that 5,000 New York schoolboys and schoolgirls soon would begin to exchange letters with an equal number of French youngsters. The U. S. children will write in French, the French in English, each will correct the other. But the French Correspondance Scolaire Internationale, sponsor of this friendly and educational gesture, insisted on one restriction which Mr. Wilkins could explain only as an old French custom: French boys may write to U.S. girls, but U. S. boys may not write...
Geography is a new and small field, with 22 concentrators. The subject is of little direct practical value, teaching, exploration, and cartography being about the only occupations it is of direct aid to. It is a subject, however, which can be put to any number of purposes, such as correlation with history or economics. Moreover due to the way in which the material is taught, it is a field most conducive to thought and reason on the part of the student, and in this alone it is helpful to any career. Because facts play such a small part...
Since there are so few instructors (three) within the field and consequently a limited number of courses, there is more room for tutorial work than in the field of Geology. Concentrators pointed out Soil as one subject which was under-emphasized in the courses and is done in tutorial conferences, although at present there is no course that could stand more emphasis on it. Reading which connects the field with History or Economics can also be done under the direction of the tutors...