Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While House football has been occupying the intramural spotlight, the University's fail intramural program has extended beyond the Houses to the Yard and the Law and Business schools, drawing nearly 1500 participants...
...People are apt to confuse the Houses and intramural programs," Adolf W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, said yesterday, pointing out that only about half of those participating in his extensive program last year were playing on House teams...
...facts about jobs. Dr. Lee herded 13 top-rank public-school superintendents into a private Pullman and for ten days, with their expenses paid by the Carnegie Corporation, these superintendents toured the schools of eight cities. They found interesting experiments, but nowhere did the superintendents find a complete, effective program of occupational adjustment...
Last week they sent to 1,000 public-school superintendents throughout the U.S. a report, Occupational Adjustment. They proposed that public schools adopt a three-point program to: 1) guide, 2) train, 3) place students in the right jobs. First step, said the superintendents, is to make up-to-date, realistic studies of occupations. In Denver, for example, the schools surveyed the baking industry, found what kinds of workers were employed, how many were likely to be needed, even what nationalities were preferred by employers...
Died. Elzie Crisler Segar, 43, comic-strip artist who created "Popeye the Sailor"; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. Six hundred trademarked articles, a cinema cartoon and a radio program were named after Popeye. Because spinach was his only food its sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal City, Texas, U.S. spinach-raising centre, put up a Popeye statue. Three years ago, when Segar's comic strip appeared in. over 500 newspapers in the U.S. and 20 foreign countries, Popeye nosed out Mickey Mouse in a nationwide poll as the most popular comic-strip character. Some...