Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studies. And, shocking as his argument seems, one must concede that there is something in it. To begin with, the honor system as commonly practiced is less an honor system than a self-winding spy system. The student promises not only to accept no aid himself but also to report any student whom he sees taking aid. This, as even the dullest student knows, is a far cry from honor. In the second place, it is a system whose benefits all flow in the direction. The faculty is usually better for it than the students are, and for good reason...
...knowledge, where metaphysical lore and technical logic have been placed as in a well-ordered catalogue. That it is in more than one way returning to some sort of intimacy with the problems of man is a supposition borne out by recent events. Such an one is the recent report of the Student Council Committee on Education wherein is recommended a compulsory course for all students in the one subject that can in any way profess to deal with life in its complete entity. Another such event will be the conference of philosophers which is to meet at Harvard next...
...report issued last week by the Ministry of Labor placed the number of miners unemployed as a result of the continued British coal strike (TIME...
This week its President, George E. Vincent, preparing to print his 1925 report, briefs the Foundation's activities: 1) Hookworm-aided 18 governments, treated nearly 1,500,000 victims, erected or rebuilt thousands of latrines. 2) Rural health-aided 220 U. S. counties, 18 districts in Brazil, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and France. 3) Yellow Fever-eliminated it through both Americas (only three cases in the year). 4) Malaria-proved that paris green prevents breeding of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. 5) Medical Education-gave money to U. S. universities or schools at Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Budapest, Trinidad...
Married. Arthur Ruhl, famed and able European correspondent (TIME, Sept. 28, RUSSIA, "Ruhl's Report") for the New York Herald Tribune, to Zinaida Yakounchikoff, a Russian refugee; in Berlin. Her father, now a Riviera hotel keeper, was once a Tsaral functionary. Until recently she gave language lessons in Berlin...