Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Examination will begin at 9.15. The blue books will be distributed at that hour. The papers, however, will be distributed at 9 o'clock to those present. The obvious purpose of this arrangement is to allow 15 minutes extra time before the examination to those who may wish to read over the paper...
...more general results of the Poll, one of the most significant suggestions, and one which could with ease be read into many ballots, was the actual acquire a place of their own, irrespective of the whole course. If for example, a man's field were Anthropology, his tutor would send him to individual lectures in other department, thus obviating the need for the student's absorbing the welter of material distributed over a whole course. Unhappily, tutoring is the most expensive means of education, and lecturing the cheapest, precluding for the immediate present the prospect of fulfilling so interesting...
Obviously, therefore, the solution of substituting a general survey course of all the sciences would completely miss the mark. It would be like suggesting that all who have not been aroused by the "precise caress" of history should be excused from history courses and allowed to read H. G. Wells and study his "kulturgeschichte." There is already enough general and inaccurate "cultural" knowledge in America, and our national fondness for cyclopedias and bibliographies is ample proof of this discouraging tendency. The real error in the editorial, however, is the assumption that a course in the history of science and learning...
...Anne Sullivan Macy, lifetime companion and tutor of blind Helen Keller, bedded herself in a Manhattan hospital, had a cataract removed from her left eye. Blind in her right eye, Mrs. Macy was rapidly losing the sight of her left. Last week doctors hoped she would be able to read again, not have to use the Braille system which she once taught Miss Keller and which Miss Keller has lately been teaching back...
...compound which would serve the purpose of rubber rather than duplicate its composition. The synthetic rubber which grew out of the Nieuwland researches is 40% chlorine, not an ingredient of natural rubber at all. At a chemistry symposium in Rochester, during the winter of 1925, Father Nieuwland read a paper on the formation of divinyl acetylene from acetylene and cuprous ammonium chloride. Du Font's Dr. Elmer K. Bolton was there, suspected that if the monovinyl could be similarly produced, artificial rubber was at hand. Acetylene, from common coke and lime, is cheap...