Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the chief obligation accompanying President Conant's nationalization of Harvard is the duty of University Hall to inform itself regarding schools and scholars in various sections of the country. This means that accurate knowledge must be secured of regional marking standards, College Board training, and teaching emphasis, in order that school achievement may be translated into Harvard grades. It means that Dr. Gummere must be given enough assistants to determine by interview the personality of every applicant without recourse to welfare agencies or university clubs...
...organization in the field should be accompanied by reorganization at home. To set his house in order, Dr. Gummere should insist on the centralization of his department and the close co-operation of other officers of the University. The advice of the Hygiene Department, important but not all-important, should be kept in check and balanced against other considerations. From the various Deans he should receive records enabling him to judge schools by their past graduates. If it is decided that men not associated with the University can be of help, Phillips Brooks House should be educated in Harvard...
Because his two additions to the outfield, Joe Soltz and Rud Hoye, have not been pounding the ball with the regularity expected nor in the clutches, Mitchell has revamped his batting order moving the newcomers down the list in favor of third baseman Dick Grondahl and second sacker Dave Shean who are now in positions 4 and 5 respectively...
...died in England at 35. Julian became his father's biographer, wrote some 50 volumes, died in 1934 in San Francisco, Calif, at the age of 88. Rose turned Catholic and founded, under the Dominican rule, the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer and headed the order until her death twelve years ago. Because Nathaniel Hawthorne's powers of observation were extremely acute, and because he filled his many notebooks with jottings about his children, his random writings about them make up one of the best pictures of childhood in U. S. literature-tender, unexpected, funny, but with...
...average and better-than-average detective stories last month, four stood as best bets. In order of merit...