Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relation between the advisory and tutorial systems should induce the University to step beyond efficiency. Now that the availability of the advisers has been insured by the requirement of two office hours a week and of at least five meetings a year, the final goal could well be the turning of advisorial into tutorial work. This is particularly feasible where both adviser and advisee are interested in the same field. Along with the transformation would go the extension of tutorial to Group IV Freshmen, so that as Sophomores the majority of the class might be on the road to honors...
Science's conquest of cancer is one step nearer success today because Louis F. Fieser '25, professor of Chemistry, has formulated a more specific definition than research workers have ever had before of the essential structural peculiarities of the chemicals that produce...
...citizens. No human mind can comprehend more than a fragment of the complex and minutely specialized activities of its citizens. There is a special name for power when it is concentrated on such a scale: it is called impotence." One proof of impotence is that almost every step the metropolis has taken to deal with congestion has actually increased it. Subways route millions of people a day to the city's centre, in New York cost the city 3? over every 5? fare. Such transportation improvements as Wacker Drive in Chicago, which cost $22,000,000 a mile...
...good that the college believes in freedom of teaching, but it is very good that the public, which has the power of suppressing the college, has the same belief. The extension courses, which bring the faculty into contact with a large body of the public, are a step in the right direction...
...subject matter is inherently difficult. Einstein, of course, can be expected to understand his own theory more clearly than any of his popularizers, and much more clearly than they can he explain the ideas to the laymen. Nevertheless a good deal of concentration is required to follow each step in the thought, and a good understanding of the content must require several rereadings. One of the most pleasant features of the book is the absence of any dramatization of the subject or of any sentimental speculation about the connection between physics and a mathematical...