Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just fired ten assistant professors. For the benefit of the national press services, let us hasten to add that he has not really "fired" them; he has converted their present contracts into terminating appointments. Of course he has a reason his personal interpretation of the Committee of Eight's report...
...rabies (a deadly virus disease), cannot be transmitted from dogs to human beings, the convulsions are so alarmingly violent that more than 100,000 innocent dogs with fits are destroyed every year. Last week in Veterinary Medicine, scholarly Dr. John W. Patton of East Lansing, Mich, published an illuminating report on the cause & cure of fits...
...quality of English," this report says, "revealed by these sample papers seeing to this Committies on the whole unworthy of Harvard Freshman and Sophomores. We are convinced that unless this problem is more generally recognized, the situation is not likely to improve...
...report recognizes the fact that the English department teaches competition and that students exempt from English A are expected to write clear prose, but the Committee recommends that "every other department should insist that ideas be clearly and correctly expressed before they are accepted are evidence that the student possesses an adequate grasp of the subject...
...necessary that the instructor analyze to student's difficulties for him; dissatisfaction with a student's style is sufficient cause for reporting him to the Committee," the report concludes...