Word: reportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor: "You're the toast of the East, Brother Snavely, for the job your Big Redmen did on Ohio State in their own back yard. You get an 'A' on the report card for that...
Shapley's report to the Academy dealt principally with observations of southern galaxies and clusters, and was given in collaboration with Dr. John S. Paraskevopoulus, Superintendent of the South African station...
...President's Fund" to take care of pressing short-run departmental needs; and the appointment of associate professors even without the mathematical certainty that they will be promoted to full professorships. These proposals are neither impractical nor startling. Both were implied in the Committee of Eight's Report, and the "frozen" associate professorships have been urged by the Crimson, the Progressive and the high-sounding "Committee to Save Harvard Education." Skirting the broad issue of dictatorship (however benevolent) versus democracy in Harvard's administration, the Council has wisely focussed its attention on the two means best calculated to resuscitate those...
Last week rain fell continuously on the Western Front. In the 20-mile sector north of the Swiss border which faces the rocky fortress of Istein-Germany's "Gibraltar of the Rhine"-sodden French infantrymen came in from patrol to report that across the swelling river the German troops were busy in the flats. To stop this activity-whatever it was-French engineers had an answer that cost no lives, no ammunition. They closed the gates that drain Rhine water into the Rhine-Rhone Canal, let the river flood the flats...
Having had fun writing their report, the authors of Guide to Courses announced that a move was afoot to publish a bigger & better one, on the scale of the university catalogue, ratings to be based on a general student poll. This week the daily Californian began to publish results of such a poll, conducted by German Professor Franz Schneider (no rating). Said Guide to Courses: "Such student-controlled criticism might help the teaching staff considerably...