Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...results. The synthetic product he called hematine. Or ganic chemists are now experimenting with the substance, using it upon animals to de termine how doctors may employ it to cure human disease. Sir Chandrasekhara Ven kata Raman discovered in 1928 that when monochromatic light shines on a trans parent substance like quartz, chloroform, water, the wavelength of some of the scattered light is changed. Thus what was originally a pure yellow may con tain green, blue. This is now known as the Raman effect, has been used as a proof of the new quantum theory of light...
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...world to maintain itself since the advent of the talking movie. The coming of other vicarious amusements has made its problem more complex. The public was beginning to for get it. Boston audiences have never been particularly enthusiastic or acute. There are only a handful who prefer the legitimate parent to the illegitimate son. The ruck are either too dull to fathom the sensible, or too untutored to follow the trivial...
...model of the League of Nations in which students, acting as representatives of the various countries, convene to argue and debate. This replica has no power save that of increased knowledge, its dictums settle little beyond friendly controversies, but its activity fills as definite a need as its parent overseas. The generation which fought in 1917 will not live to fight again, but their children may and it is important that they school themselves so they may not. Th League which meets in Wellesley this year should do as much in its limited way for war prevention as the League...
...school has a choice of becoming a tutoring institution pure and simple, or of disposing of the inadequate students, or of advising the parent of his son's deficiencies. Most academics unfortunately adopt the first two courses open to them for their reputation depends largely on the success of their produce at the universities. There are objections to these methods. The first stultifies original thinking and turns out boys cast in a conventional college board mould: the second takes no account of the boys who are weeded out which is grossly unfair and unnecessary...