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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal of international cooperation. A prime requisite of this is a comprehension of the other fellow's point of view. Such educational methods as exchange professorships and international fellowships are contributory factors whose value was recognized by Cecil Rhodes. The general success of his plan has given impetus to similar projects. Harvard has done much in this way in the past few years, and the Associated Harvard Clubs are to be congratulated in continuing the good work at this particularly timely moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GOOD-WILL SCHOLARSHIP | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...which the machine was developed, and which is as yet its only practical application. Is in automatic switching equipment. For instance, the central office desires to turn on a light or perform some similar operation in a distant power station where Televox has been installed and no human beings are present. The dispatcher at headquarters telephones the substation. Televox answers, the signal is given. Televox caries out the command, and reports that it has been done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Man Throws Electric Switches at Sound of Its Inventor's Voice--Televox Developed for Remote Control | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

...were required to submit designs and sketches of a recreation center for an industrial city, a so-called "week-end problem". The subject was announced Friday, November 30, at 5 o'clock, and the time limit for handing in the designs was the next day at midnight. Two other similar Competitions will be held this year for other prizes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRADUATE SCHOOLS | 12/11/1928 | See Source »

...Similar "meditation chapels" will be installed as soon as practicable in all other hotels operated by the corporation. Said Mi. Bowman: "The presence of one spot in the hotel, dissociated from the wordly things of life and dedicated to the God we profess to serve, is now recognized as a spiritual necessity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Come Unto Me | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Dunedin, Fla., city of 1,500 on the sandy Gulf coast, last week made itself memorable among advertising communities. It lacks the industrial opportunities of Dallas, Oakland and similar growing cities. Nonetheless it wants business builders to settle there and for that purpose hired a smart secretary for its Chamber of Commerce-Milton M. Murray. When Bernt Balchen (who is with Commander Byrd now) and the late Floyd Bennett were testing the Josephine Ford plane for the Byrd North Pole flight two years ago, Secretary Murray was a Detroit newspaperman and flew with them on some of their experimental flights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On to the South Pole | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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