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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robot moves with human-like movements, talks distinctly and is built in the semblance of a six-foot man. The most remarkable thing about this automaton, is his ability to answer any question within reason. Captain Richards explained that each question had a key number, such as 74, the sound waves of the seven and four combined making a certain rate of vibration on a wire inside the man, which vibrations cause him to give the correct answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robot Soon to Supplant Humans in Purely Mechanical Tasks Inventor Predicts--Has Already Shown Signs of Intelligence | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: The quality of "modesty" in your correspondent Alphonse J. Miller who is shocked at the beautiful figure of a "Zig" comes from a mind morally diseased. As soon as I read the letter, I fished up the number (Dec. 17) and studied the figure more closely and with greater pleasure. In fact, I am not ashamed to say that I think so much of the beauty of the perfect human form that I never take a bath without a long and admiring look at my own form in its perfect proportions. Not one part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: After reading your article on The Hill School in Feb. 11 issue I thought you might be interested to know that some public high schools are also doing this pioneer work. Upper Darby High School, Upper Darby, Pa.-a Philadelphia suburban High School-has for a number, of years, under the leadership of its principal, John H. Tyson, had a system of personal history cards, which are similar in purpose and idea to those of the Hill School. They are a four years' cumulative record of all that might help to determine a pupil's fitness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Yesterday at the Harvard Union, under the auspices of the governing board of that organization, a luncheon, attended by a number of graduates and undergraduates, was held in an effort to learn the student opinion on the question of the disposal of the Union under the House Plan before the report of the governing board on this matter is submitted to the Corporation. Judge F. P. Cabot '90, president of the governing board, described the main alternatives, assuming that under the House Plan Freshmen will live in the Yard, as follows: "Either an annex to the Union will be built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUTURE OF UNION UNDER DISCUSSION AT LUNCHEON | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...fourteen Harvard Clubs will be projected in the Large Lecture Hall of the New Fogg Museum the evening of February 27 for the officers of administration and instruction. There will be two showings, one at eight and the other at nine o'clock in order to accommodate the large number of officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officers to See "Harvard Film" | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

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