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...fighting ship (TIME, Sept. 1) and flag-bearer of the Special Service (Caribbean) Squadron, at Corinto, Nicaragua. Lying at Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five submarines, snuggled like schools of fish into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and New London, Conn., learned they were to be shelved or scrapped. Two headquarters of the mine force heard they were to be abolished in a process of unification...
Open to boys from the ages of seven to sixteen, the new swimming class marks the first time that outsiders have ever been permitted in the University pool. Any son of a member of the faculty can become a member of the class by paying a yearly fee of $2.50. Tickets are to be purchased from the attendant in charge of the locker room downstairs in the new gymnasium: the applicant must either have a signed letter from his father or be accompanied by him personally. The aim of the class is to give instruction to non swimmers and afford...
...whole purpose of the tutorial system has been to eliminate the necessity of taking an entire course in order to glean a very few facts, and together with the divisionals and the distribution requirements, it has successfully discouraged the practise, so flourishing in former days, of taking sixteen "snap" courses and getting a degree. Here is a instance where it has apparently failed, but the application is the same and a remedy is in order. Whether it be in the direction of departmental reorganization or that of closer tutorial supervision cannot here be discussed, but a system of preliminary examinations...
Scarcely less famed is the Ardebil carpet, now in London's Victoria & Albert Museum. A body of rich blue with delicate floral tracery surrounds a centre medallion of yellow. Sixteen minaret-shaped points lead to 16 red, gold, and green cartouches. Sacred mosque lamps hang from two of them...
Planning no monopoly, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and its German associate have formed a Hydro-Patents Co. through which U. S. oil companies may share the advantages of the new process (TIME, June 16). Sixteen big refiners have already subscribed to stock in the company. Companies which have shown interest in installing the new process represent 80% of the total U. S. refining capacity...