Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canal boosters, mostly from North Florida, pooh-poohed these figures. The City of Jacksonville hired a local firm of engineers named Hills & Youngberg to make another survey for a fee reported to be $30,000. Hills & Youngberg, as expected, brought in a report steaming with encouragement: such a canal was quite practical; it would cost only $100,000,000; it would easily pay for itself in practically no time at all; it would cut 400 treacherous sea miles from the distance between North-Atlantic ports and Gulf of Mexico ports...
...Bingham's report brings into the limelight again the perplexing question of the emphasis to be placed upon inter-collegiate football at Harvard. Dr. Bock's opinion that the period of practice should in the interests of health be lengthened by an earlier opening in September seems to give the university two alternatives with regard to this question. Either this extension, with its resulting emphasis upon football, must be adopted in the hope of averting injuries, or the strain upon the athletes must be relieved by a reduction in the number of games...
...Student Council investigation committees, one looking into the general subject of Scholarships and the other into Employment integration, were combined under the co-chairmanship of Raymond Dennett '36 and John B. Bowditch '37. This joint committee will issue a report on the combined problem of scholarships, student employment, beneficiary aid, and loans at the end of the month...
...report submitted by Professor Cross's Committee on Language Requirements to the Faculty Council should be of extreme value to the student Body. The question of elementary courses in French and German has been fairly and squarely tackled, and the result shows unusual foresight into the problems confronting the average student. The Committee has recognized that what is often most needed is stress on a definite phase of elementary training, such as reading, grammar or composition. Until these fundamentals are instilled in a student, the great value of a survey course is lost. With this in mind, it has rearranged...
...without the foundation of a general understanding, the cultural cream gathered in such a course will soon dribble off and be relegated to some mental attic along with other musty educational relics of bygone days. An interesting new innovation is the French and German F, described in the report as an "introduction with slides and phonograph records to the respective countries". At first smacking somewhat of the Travelogue, these two newcomers give promise of being among the most entertaining and colorful of the courses to be given...