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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Effects of a Declining Birth Rate" is the subject of Myrdal's second lecture Wednesday. Next week the economist will devote his talks to "Remedial Means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EUROPEAN ECONOMIST TO CONTINUE SERIES OF GODKIN LECTURES | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...upshot of these various movements should be the organization of an Inter-House Committee to plan, record, and publicize these extra-curricular developments. Perhaps a budgetary plan could be evolved, with allocations to each of the Houses for specific activities. At any rate, some form of organization is necessary if only to gather up the loose ends. To effectuate a more permanent inter-House setup, this is essential. Allan H. Kalmus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

Examinations have been made easier physically, not mentally speaking--for both student and instructor by the mechanical marker. It aids the student by eliminating the essay examination. It aids the instructor by grading the examination papers at the rate of 300 to 400 per hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Machine Grades Exams | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

Slow-moving story, with first-rate characterizations and well-developed English village atmosphere, in which a fussy, ambitious lawyer turns into a murderer before the reader's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries-of-the-Month: Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...Witney Museum, assiduous in keeping tabs on the dead as well as the living, last week performed another of its noted reanimations. The subject was U.S. Artist Frank Duveneck, who died a silvery grand old man in Cincinnati in 1919. When the average citizen thinks of first-rate U.S. painters of half a century ago he remembers John Singer sargent, but he is not likely to remember that Sargent once remarked: "After all's said, Frank Duveneck is the greatest talent of the brush of this generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U.S. Hals | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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