Word: scale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indications at the present time point to the possibility of a wide-spread textile strike throughout the South. Labor is inflamed, and justly so, over housing conditions, hours of employment, and the low wage scale prevalent in the textile mills of the southern states...
...subject of this Dental School experiment, which was carried on a comparatively small scale, was the Junior class. Divided in the second semester into small groups of from three to five men each with a tutor for each group, the class hold tutorial conferences. In these conferences the members of the groups discussed and weighed material covered in their reading and the subsequent theses and reports...
...offered to decorate buildings in a true Mexican style. With Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) as mas ter they received a contract to paint murals for the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. For their motive they chose the Creation of the World, which was executed in monumental scale with figures twice lifesize. Unlike polite muralists of other countries their colors were not pastel tints but sombre browns, flashing reds and greens...
...long as any nonacademic interest occupies first place in a boy's scale of values he should be given 'time out' to investigate it before he is sent to college. It may be that the boy will find that he is totally mistaken. A little actual experience on a farm may convince him that his interest in agriculture is not so deep as it once seemed; some time in a studio may reveal that his talent is not so great as he fancied. In that case, he can always return to college. But, until he has cleared...
...hundred years from now, some budding Ph. D. will write a thesis on "The Social Influence of the Automobile" and it ought to be a good one. What they have done to Harvard as a community is only an example on the large scale of what they have done to every American family. The bisecting of the college preserve, the destruction of quiet by the roaring arteries of traffic, is an incident common to every village and town. The coming and going, the opportunity of being somewhere else, that has a way of depopulating Harvard over the weekends...