Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps too early to predict any results to come out of the Burrus survey. The law on diminishing utility seems to work in the world of athletic panaceas and to date this report which parallels in some ways the plan proposed recently by President Hopkins of Dartmouth, has failed to stir up the looked for storm of discussion. And yet the suggestions are sound, the changes practical in the extreme. Now that the excitement and novelty of the first cries for athletic reform in the colleges has died down, the general attitude seems to be one of mild approval...
...decrease in the number of whole-time students enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Education was predicted by Dean H. W. Holmes in his report for 1926 to President Lowell. The smaller enrolment would be the natural outcome of the decision last year to raise the requirements for a degree of Master of Education from one year to two, with fuller and broader program of study and training. The new plan will raise the standards of the School of Education and generally increase the value of the training the school affords...
Dean Holmes, in his report offers a defense of the plan and an outline of the program for the future...
...German surgeons who were in congress at Berlin last week, Dr. Carl H. von Noorden sent his report from his clinic at Frankfurt-am-Main. He wrote that he had succeeded in making an extract of animal pancreases. This extract he had reduced to powder then compressed into tablets. Patients whom insulin sickened could swallow his tablets. He called this extract "horment...
President John J. O'Brien's report last week that Standard Gas & Electric Co. of Chicago owns public utility properties worth $873,135,568 and has total assets of practically a billion dollars ($973,859,382) may startle governmental officials already queasy with suspicion of public utility holding corporations such as this. Prudent, President O'Brien warded off aspersion: "Public utilities cannot be operated economically in small units. Only by grouping them into large, strong organizations can they be favorably financed, scientifically engineered and successfully operated so as to render services at the lowest reasonable cost...