Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Establishing a precedent in University development, the new Littauer School of Public Administration will open on March 1, for a three month session without students during which the faculty will hold sessions with fifty prominent officials drawn from federal, state and local government, President Conant announced last night...
...work of organizing the preliminary session this spring has been undertaken at President Conant's request by William B. Munro, '01 a member of the executive council of the California Institute of Technology and formerly Professor of American History and Government here. Professor Munro was a member of the advisory commission, headed by President Harold W. Dodds of Princeton, which made plans for the new school...
During the exploratory session each of the visiting officials will stay at the school for periods of from one week to a month or more. Arrangements have already been made for the attendance of a number of high public administrators from Washington, as well as from various state capitals and large cities. The Rockefeller Foundation has provided a grant of $65,000 for financing this series of conferences during the preliminary session and throughout the coming academic year...
...atmosphere by occasionally answering questions, but the class has expanded beyond the discussion stage. What little personal contact one does make during the half year is gleaned solely from the altogether too brief weekly laboratory sections. With three hours of laboratory work crammed into a two-hour session is it any wonder that 90 per cent of the enrollment finds itself cranking adding machines in Boylston through most of the Reading Period...
...news, it was also announced that one elementary course at least--Biology D--will hold a review of the term's work this Sunday evening in Emerson D at 8 o'clock. George W. Beadle, assistant professor of Genetics, and Luzern G. Livingston, instructor in Biology, will conduct the session which will be devoted principally to the answering of questions of men in the course...