Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose of this committee is to conduct an investigation of the general theory of education at Harvard, and to recommend changes in the theory and practice of education which should be put into practice in the University. It is understood that this investigation will include such subjects as the adjustment of the tutorial system to the old course system, and the equalization of the requirements for a degree in the various departments of the University, as well as a number of other problems now prominent in education here...
...public libraries. French physicians, Drs. Touchais and Moureau, have found germs of tuberculosis on the pages of books subjected to experiment after four or five months. Nevertheless, extensive studies made in this country cause physicians to believe that the chance of infection from such material is slight. Modern hygienists recommend that books used by persons suffering with severe infectious diseases be burned if of little value, and be disinfected by thorough airing and sunning and possible subjection to formaldehyde vapors if of greater value...
...comparable European countries tend to decrease. For the most recent comparable periods fire losses in Great Britain are calculated at less than $1 per capita per annum, while those of the United States are placed at approximately $5 per capita. . . . Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, recommend that the week beginning Sunday, Oct. 4, be observed as National Fire Prevention Week...
...Board, appointed by President Coolidge to investigate the nation's air policy and recommend the best means of carrying on development of military, naval and commercial aviation, last week got its inquiry under way. Dwight W. Morrow, chairman of the Board, and his associates including Senator Bingham, Admiral Fletcher, retired, and General Harbord, retired, temporarily put away all their private affairs and settled down in an intensive effort to complete their work by the third week in October and present their conclusions to the President not later than the latter part of November. Mr. Coolidge has laid down this...
...Coolidge has hit upon a good formula for handling controversial questions when the public demands that something be done. He appoints a commission to investigate and then recommend.* The recommendations then usually become part of the Administration's program...