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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago, perturbed because engineers could not get jobs when they got their degrees, Mr. Murphy began a study of U. S. universities to see what could be done about founding a school that would give young engineers a better chance to find work. He was helped by General Motors' Research Director Charles Kettering and University of Cincinnati's Dean Herman Schneider, originator of a "cooperative" plan of engineering study...
Northwestern's new institute will be conducted on this cooperative plan, whereby students spend equal periods studying in the school and working in industry, take five years to complete the course, will be virtually assured of a job when they finish. Offering civil, mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering courses, the institute will open in September 1940, eventually accommodate 800 students...
...sluggish enrollment and a drying up of endowment sources, is bad. Big, well-heeled colleges and universities and a few progressive institutions are prosperous, but many a small college does not know where its next student is coming from. Last fortnight Trentwell Mason White of Boston's Curry School (a small college) reported a buyers' market in colleges. In an article in The Commentator, "Colleges for Sale," he related his findings...
...artist, William Steig, is in sympathy with his characters in that he hated to grow up, still does. A quiet young man with lazy, stone-blue eyes, a wide grin and upstanding stiff brown hair, Steig at 31 looks about as he did when he went to Public School No. 53, in The Bronx. Little boys, he believes, "are not as quickly socially-conditioned as little girls and obviously not as artificial as adults. They furnish the best clues to the intrinsic nature...
...half years when young, purely to stall off a career, Artist Steig got all his fun playing football in the back yard. The dead hand of the academy certainly guided none of his carving. Longest job was the woeful Guitarist-two weeks; shortest was the Sequinned Lady-two days. School Girl is a bit African around the eyes, but Man at a Gathering is straight Steig. In general he wanted to make figures that would not "seem out of place in the cabbage fumes of apartment houses." Last week he was asked if he regarded his woodwork as a hobby...