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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...injurious effect. A man can after all reserve the right to his own judgment in accepting or rejecting the counsel of the Freshman adviser, but if he is cursed with an indifferent or incompetent tutor, he misses a serious proportion of the good which the College has to offer him. Limitation not amplification of the number of tutees is a necessary means to insure success for the system. Definite regulation of the kind and amount of work which tutors must do is a vital prerequisite. This regulation, as well as greater care in the selection...
...which feed Harvard. As a result, more and more students will tend to enter College with baby learning in social problems, science, and history, and without the mind training which the classics and mathematics have generally been believed a inculcate. It would be oversimple to maintain that these latter offer the only road to rigorous thinking, because the oldest one. But it is unlikely that equal materials can be found in the mass of secondary schools which must struggle with average teachers and large classes, or for that matter in the select preparatory schools which have become more interested...
...does the University Theater combine in one program two features with as great an entertainment value as "Star of Midnight" and "Hold 'Em Yale." The former attraction, an extremely complicated murder mystery starring that ace of detectives William Powell, joins with Damon Runyon's most recent comedy hit to offer an evening of pleasing diversion to the theatergoer. In fact, despite the general prevalence of examinations, we do not hesitate to recommend the current double bill as one of the more interesting attractions of the season...
These things struck at the heart of the argument for TVA as a yardstick for private power rates. By its write-down of 62% on plant and equipment TVA can make a showing of breaking even on rates that a private company could offer only at loss. Similarly with depreciation, on the present 10%-of-gross basis, TVA will have to get more than ten times as much revenue to make an adequate depreciation allowance. Mr. McCarl commented: "There is very little basis for assuming that revenues will ever reach such a figure...
...Army transport St. Mihiel at Seward, Alaska last week trudged the second & final contingent of Depression-whipped U. S. farmers who had taken up the Government's offer of a new life in Matanuska Valley (TIME, May 6; LETTERS, May 27). Leaving their wives & children behind for a few days, 136 men swung aboard day coaches, rode all night to Palmer. There they lined up with their 67 predecessors, shuffled past the colony's genial Chief Don Irwin, dipping their hands into his hat. A slip of paper told each man which 40 acres, barring swaps, failure...