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...instruction in the Bab and Dab courses will be re-examined and an attempt will be made to heighten the level of achievement in these courses. Students who wish to acquire an oral command of the languages will be seriously urged to select Bab and Dab. Your headline should have read, "Department revises and puts greater emphasis on oral languages classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGUAGE RECOMMENDATION | 3/26/1953 | See Source »

...have a circulation of only 1,085,000. But McGraw-Hill thinks the small circulations of its weeklies, fortnightlies and monthlies are parceled out where they count, among businessmen, technicians, scientists, and other specific groups. To advertisers, who pay high space rates, McGraw-Hill plugs the theme of a select audience, e.g., a tire manufacturer is assured that his ad in Bus Transportation will be read only by bus company executives, municipal officials, etc. "We put up a tent," says Editorial Director Ralph Smith, "and tell everyone we're going to put on a certain kind of show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Tent | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...Standard Oil of New Jersey estimated that it would net $10 million less (about $518 million) than in 1951. Shell, with gross sales of $1,142,632,000, joined the select Billion Dollar Club for the first time, but its earnings fell 6% (to $90.9 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Good Cheer & Bad | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

Competitors may select the subjects of their essays, and may submit as many as they wish, but they may not receive more than one prize in a group. Graduate essays must be under twelve thousand words; parts of doctoral dissertations are eligible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Essays For Bowdoin Prizes In Greek, Latin Due April 1 | 3/19/1953 | See Source »

...announced a model scholarship program to send high-school students to college. If all goes according to plan, the program will eventually take care of 400 students, pay their full four-year tuition, add an allowance for books and board, give an annual $600 grant to the colleges that select them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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