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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant statement recently issued by President Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology it was stated that this institution is faced with the necessity of limiting its student body. This is to be done by increasing the severity of the regulations which determine whether or not a student may remain in the institute and not by more stringent entrance requirements...
...thus avoiding the use of entrance grades as the test of the student's fitness to remain in the institution the Technology authorities appear to have decided wisely. The advantages which the graduates of the best preparatory schools have in their preparation and the amount of transient knowledge which can be absorbed with the help of a hired tutor greatly limit entrance grades as a true gauge of ability. On the other hand, in spite of the prevalence of tutorial schools accessible to college students, college grades are largely the result of industry and aptitude for the subject...
...greater than any to be found in Europe is one of the supremely important industrial achievements of the decade. Lately it has been known that he has thought of retiring. Why he was granted a leave of absence last week, for how long it will last, are questions which remain unanswered...
...manganese mines. During the past year a corps of engineers has been studying these Cuban deposits, reporting back to the U. S. company which sent it. Last week that U. S. company acted and announced it had bought control of Cuban-American Manganese Corp., allowing the minority interest to remain in the shrewd hands of David Marvin Goodrich, chairman of B. F. Goodrich Co. A big mill will be built at once, shipments to the U. S. started. Surprising, however, was revelation of the U. S. firm's identity. It was Freeport Texas Co., second biggest producer of sulphur...
...lineups. The game will be played under the American intercollegiate rules. If the teams are tied at the end of the regulation time no more than two overtime periods will be played to break the deadlock. If no score is made in this extra twenty minutes the game will remain...