Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endorsement of President Coolidge (TIME, May 19). Other Muscle Shoals bids now before Congress (and accepted by neither the House nor the Senate) include those of Hooker-White- Atterbury, the Allied Power Companies, the Union Carbide (TIME, April 28, May 12). Pending in the Senate also is a report from the Committee on Agriculture recommending a bill framed by the Committee's Chairman, Senator Norris. The Norris Bill (TIME, June 9) provides for continued Government ownership, gives the option of Government or private operation...
Commander Stepp, surgeon of the U. S. scouting fleet, was making a special report to his superiors. The particular corporation he had in mind was the U. S. Navy. He questioned if this corporation was not "juggling" in permitting "maddening engineering competition" between its various elements, "especially when we consider the deleterious effects, on the health and morale of a selected personnel, of permitting a reduction of the standard allowances of heat, ventilation, water and light." Modern battleship design, as every one knows, seeks to eliminate waste space, waste weight, superfluous comfort...
...Psychologists are beginning to return to the old theory that the Classics can not be excelled in developing, exercising, and generally benefiting a student's mind", said Professor Greene. "The report declares that in a statistical investigation of 10,000 College Entrance Examination papers, submitted by students of schools from all over America, it was found that men who had had Latin or Greek did better in all their subjects than men who had never studied either of these two languages in school. This is a startling and boastful claim to make but it is certainly borne...
...This year we are trying a new experiment, very much the same kind of thing as the report suggests. All men who are taking one of the five introductory courses are receiving an introduction to ancient civilization. They will have a certain amount of time set aside for this every week and will meet in small groups to discuss the ground which they have covered. This should serve to develop the ideas of the students and should give them a permanent respite from the regular routine of the course...
...important thing to call attention to in any comment on the report of the League", declared Professor Greene, "is that it has brought to the notice of the public the increasing popularity of the Classics. There seems to be no doubt that most teachers are at last convinced that it is no waste of time to study 'dead languages'. They are, however, aware of their responsibility in concentrating more on the subject matter of classics and less on the grammar than formerly. To this end they are improving their texts and changing their methods of teaching...