Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light of President Conant's recent pioneering into new fields of educational theory, it is fitting that two educational conferences should gather at Harvard this week and next while the topics he discussed are still fresh in mind. Under the aegis of the Graduate School of Education, two representative bodies of teachers will recapitulate the year's work, will listen to the counsel of some of the most eminent men in academic circles, and then will marshal their knowledge for an assault on those baffling problems which are constantly arising to perplex teachers...
Judging from past experience, Ed White runs the best chance to steer the shell now that he is coming out regularly again. Alvan Fox comes next in the ranking, with George Shortlidge of the recent Freshmen following him. Joseph Elcock and James Snow, who coxed for Bill Rowe's ace Freshman crew of two seasons back, are also possibilities in a large field of steersmen...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, is lifting his baritone voice in song fairly often these days. As critical judgement and undergraduate amazement at his recent performance of an operatic aria, the "Miserere" from a well-known opera, is dying down, word comes that he has turned to more popular musical fare to entertain his classes...
...China is a dish of macaroni: too long to swallow, and too tough to bite off," said Albert E. Hindmarsh, instructor in Government, citing a current Oriental proverb as he spoke on his recent observations in the Far East before a packed house at the Geographical Institute yesterday afternoon...
Among its recent accomplishments, the Film Service has almost completed a set of films for steering the eyes of poor readers to increase their reading speed...