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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrangements have been made so that students desiring to take advantage of the railroad price reduction for the April vacation, may obtain identification slips at the Dean's office in University Ball, according to an announcement issued last night by A. C. Hanford, dean of the College. This action has been taken as a result of the announcement two days ago that the New England Passenger Association has enabled college students to travel south of New York and west of Albany at approximately 56 per cent under the ordinary price of a round trip ticket...
...number of students aided is estimated at about 140 men. Of these, approximately 100 men will receive jobs with compensation at $300 a year, and the remainder will have jobs calling for less time, with remuneration ranging from $250 to $150. In addition, about 140 men will also obtain positions as monitors with compensation ranging between $15 and $50. It is expressly stated that the plan is an emergency measure, and is contemplated for the academic year 1933-34 only. The plan was inaugurated last year to give part-time employment to House residents...
...trip this summer is to investigate some of the properties of cosmic rays, such as their direction, penetrability, and intensity, which we have not fully determined in our previous two trips. The balloon will ascend to about ten miles. It undoubtedly could go higher, but we can obtain all the results from this height that we need...
Throughout his speech, which was on "The Value of Concentration," President Lowell emphasized his oft-repeated assertion that the only sort of education that is of any value is that which is self-acquired. "Furthermore," he stated, "to obtain such an education it is absolutely essential that the student be interested in his work, and that is the reason why I urge you to choose a field which interests you, rather than one which you think would be easy...
...first-hand knowledge of Greek or Latin literature seems to me of unquestionable value in education, not so much for the discipline needed to obtain it as for the sensitizing and chastening of the imagination that it will in the end produce. But it is obvious that good thinking is more usefully directed on contemporary problems than on those of a civilization that perished centuries ago. Antiquarianism and archaeology are blind alleys, and so is Classical scholarship unless it is ventilated and illumined by a perception of the present...