Word: partials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Plan is its utter disregard for the extra-curricular but still intellectual side of undergraduate life; intramural athletics are strenuously cultivated and social events benignly encouraged, but the task of stimulating thought and discussion in the Houses has been left to very occasional common room orators. As a partial remedy to this oversight, the Debating Council's plan to organize House Debating teams is worth serious consideration...
...Olympics it was a significant fact that swimming ranked next to track as the leading international sport. Of the four consistently outstanding college swimming teams in America, two Ohio State and Michigan, give swimming the status of a major sport. Yale gives it a partial major rating, but, Harvard, although its teams have often equalled any in the country in ability and achievement, does not recognize swimming as a major...
Describing the research work of the Harvard Dental School in the past year, Dean Miner reported that "no better example of the absolute inseparability of dental problems from medicine and biology can be found than in the studies of partial deficiencies of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) pursued by a group of workers...
...believes that on solar radiation depend temperature and precipitation on earth. He has found in the solar variations a number of periodicities which fit into a 23-year cycle and an even more important cycle of 46 years. Matching the cycles with actual weather records has provided, he declares, partial confirmation. Testifying last week on the Smithsonian's budget needs before a House appropriations subcommittee, he gave it as his opinion that the U. S. is emerging from a drought period which began about...
When President Gay made his original assault on SEC trading strictures, the Commission's chairman was James M. Landis. An amiable watchdog, he made only a partial retort, resigned to become dean of Harvard Law School (TIME, Sept. 27). For not replying in full, the SEC came in for considerable criticism from New Dealers. So when the SEC fell to Chairman William Orville Douglas, he began negotiating with the Stock Exchange for a letter to be written by President Gay explaining that the Exchange had no knife sharpened for the SEC and reviewing the Exchange's own plans...