Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour comprehensive examinations of the essay type, half of which are taken at the end of the second year and half at the end of the third. (The course is only three years.) Being only prepared for the honor candidate, they are admirably suited to his demands. Thus they perform well their function of testing ability. But more important than this is the influence the Tripos Examinations exert on the student's entire course of study at the University. He is aware that they ill be the sole criteria by which his degree is awarded, and consequently the quality...
Jeno Swislowski, pianist, will perform Back's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor; Beethoven's Sonata in F Minor, opus 57, Schumann's "Papillon" as well as several short works of Chopin at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon at Jordan Hall...
...nationwide mania. Evidences: In New York, department stores (Saks-Fifth Avenue, Macy's, Altman's, Spalding's) within the past two months have installed indoor ski-slides, covered with borax. Instructors ($2 to $3 an hour) give advice, teach beginners to keep their balance, to perform simple turns, to stop without falling down. In California, sale of ski equipment is this year 100% above last. In Hollywood, characters like Charlie Chaplin, Helen Twelvetrees, Joel McCrea, Mrs. Frank Borzage, have become skiing devotees. At the University of California, three years ago, Alexander Hildebrand, son of Chemistry Professor Joel...
...necessitated removal of three square inches from the top of the man's skull. Dr. Jacobson's needle, therefore, perforated only scarred scalp to plunge one and a half inches into the living brain. Because this experiment harmed the man not at all, Dr. Jacobson hopes to perform "further experimentae cruciae" to learn precisely what happens in the brain when a person makes a movement, and then possibly what to do in case of paralysis...
...Furthermore, farm families perform a great public service by taking care of many relatives during the depression. In 1929 there were 30,257,000 people on farms in the United States, but by 1935 this had grown to 32,779,000, an increase of two and a half million people. Finally, the soil which is the source of our food supply has to be conserved...