Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons for the inauguration of the Budget are explained in an extract from a report submitted to the Student Council by J. F. Barnes '27 last spring. "Hitherto," the report says, "the College has been asked each year to contribute several times to individual drives for money. The duplication of effort in collection, and the inconvenience and annoyance caused to the individual student, have redounded almost without exception to the detriment of the drives concerned. One drive, advertised as absolutely the only drive, would be more likely to meet with a generous response on the part of the student body...
...basis on which these men have been selected is indicated by a passage in the recent report of the Student Council Committee on Education. "Proctors should be young Harvard graduates," it says in part, "preferably in the first few years at graduate school who have displayed during their own undergraduate days the qualities generally considered most desirable in Harvard...
...managerial competitions are the first non-athletic activity to get away. On Monday, September 27, candidates for both the 1930 football and cross-country managerships will be required to report at the offices of the Athletic Association in the basement of the Union. The football competition will close about ten days prior to the final game, that against Yale in New Haven on November...
...this vast farming factory fleets of 75 horsepower tractors plow 1,000 or harvest 2,000 acres a day. Mechanical engineers control the machine systems, and report cards on the mileage covered by each tractor are daily handed to managers, who base pay bonuses upon mileage covered. New and improved methods of disking, plowing, seeding, harvesting, threshing have taken this farm far away from story book sentimentality and made it into a highly industrialized system operating with low cost, due to mass production methods...
Rubber. An international group of researchers agreed that synthetic rubber is not yet. The report of Dr. Richard Weilfi of Germany was most significant: during the War, Germany needed rubber badly, tried many formulas including one that starts from starch. Potatoes and corn were too scarce for food to permit using this one. Another formula, in coal and lime, was followed to produce 2,350 tons of synthetic rubber. But the product cost five dollars a pound; automobile tires made of it wore out after 1,500 miles; for inner tubes it was useless...