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...From the standpoint of instruction I am interested in both course and tutorial work, and believe each to be significant. In the sciences the integration of these two forms of instruction is beset by difficulties which are being overcome. A specific bridge to the gap exists in laboratory work, where a kind of informal tutorial work has been going on ever since laboratory courses were given. In science, moreover, the tutor's interest in research is a necessary part of his equipment as a scientist. It is s futile effort (in a scientific field) to separate tutors into teachers...
...pure have Japanese politics been since then!-from the Fighting Services standpoint. Army and Navy appropriations, zooming higher and higher to astronomical figures, have slipped through the frightened Imperial Diet and House of Peers with lightning celerity, whether Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi had the money or had to borrow it. The new Premier has been a General's jewel. He, easy-going Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito (retired), has constantly deferred to the military caste, represented in his Cabinet by Lieut.-General Sadao Araki...
...pictured by Hemingway, and, as Fadiman says, "as vitally maimed as the hero of The Sun Also Rise," they confess themselves beaten, not by the war, with which they had no direct contact, but by the depression. A great many dire things indeed may be predicted from such a standpoint...
...President Alessandri said soon after his election: "Foreign companies in Chile which worked full time when returns were good must understand that they cannot consider discharging their Chilean employees now that times are bad!" Last week Chile's "Lion" made clear that this ultimatum stands. From a practical standpoint it has dominated for the past few months relations between such super-corporations as the Guggenheim nitrate colossus Cosach and the Chilean Government. Speaking off the record, Cosach President Whelpley is understood to have said recently: "If it were not for public considerations we should close down all our plants...
Lectured Merchant Edward Albert Filene at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge. Mass.): "This is a foolish and futile depression. It could have been prevented and would have been prevented if it had been approached from a fact-finding, engineering standpoint, rather than from the old, ox-age traditional way of thinking...