Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cigarets during the period of peak demand...
...wholesale educational experiment. When Harvard men come back from Christmas holidays classes will not be called.* Last spring the governing boards approved a vote of the faculty of Arts & Sciences. Educational machinery ground out of this vote a plan. Instead of attending lectures the two and one half week period before mid-year examinations, the students will read books. These books selected by appropriate professors, will be supplied the library in quantities; will have direct bearing on the studies of the earlier term; direct bearing on the examinations. Students will be expected (but not required) to remain in Cambridge...
...could not report the number of aircraft manufactured during that 12- month period. But he did know, through William P. MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, between January and July of 1927, aircraft manufacturers made more planes than during all of 1926. At present, working two and three shifts of mechanics, they cannot supply the demand excited by the summer transoceanic flights and by the airmail success...
Such delay, a particularly familiar growing pain in education, is excusable in this first year of experiment. It is to be hoped, however, that, in the event of a Reading Period in 1929, the University will see fit to anticipate such an annoyance and that the reading lists for that period will all be issued by at least December first...
...addition to the regular tutoring offered last year by the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring bureau to students in preparation for the mid year examinations, the organization this year will give assistance on the work of the Reading Period. The number of men who have signified their intentions of taking part in the work is much larger than last year, and they have already begun to help all those who have applied...