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...Likewise, provision could be made for those at the other extreme who have diffi- culty with the course... Sectioning students according to ability, as is practised in History 1 and English A at Harvard and on a larger scale in most other New England colleges, seems to offer a partial solution of this problem. Such sectioning could be done after the November hour examinations or in certain courses at the very start by using data regarding the student's school and admission record, which are available in the Dean's Office, and by making necessary readjustments of sections...
...Green had journeyed to Danville to propose a partial surrender. Declaring that "the Danville strike is but an incident in the campaign to unionize the Southern cotton mills," he set 3,000 strikers & friends to lusty cheering by suggesting that they return to work in the mills and arbitrate their differences with the company afterwards. He even went so far as to suggest that either Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd or Virginia's onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd act as public arbitrator. His prime stipulation for peace: the workers' right to remain mem bers...
...under his arm. He was looking for someone to try his latest invention-"a resistance eliminator, or anti-drag fan." Inventor Perry showed it: a 12-in. steel disc equipped with four scoop-like blades to be affixed to the spinner (hub) of an airplane propeller. "It makes a partial vacuum in front of the propeller," he explained. "It bores through the air. I got the idea five years ago from a posthole borer on my farm." Most pilots snickered, but good-natured Pilot Frank Steinman attached the device to the prop of his OX-Waco. went aloft. Few minutes...
According to an announcement made yesterday the Harvard Lampoon fall competition for the Literary and Business Boards has been brought to a partial conclusion with the nomination of four candidates for election. The following are the nominees, all for the Business Board: Bradford Bachrach '33. Charles Sheafe '33, B. P. Rogers, G. B. Van Ness...
Cinema audiences in Italy must endure constant playing of Fascist anthems. Few pictures are released without classical titles. One announced in Rome as The Odyssey of Charlie Chaplin turned out to be the original Paramount, Tillie's Punctured Romance. Though Italians are partial to German imports, an observer for Cinema reports that when Emil Jannings in Othello was shown at the Royal Opera in Florence, at one performance the audience consisted of six people...