Word: student
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years past Government 1 has been the butt of student comment, not without some justification. This year it has once again given those enrolled in the course reason to criticize, for it has failed to supply them with the number of books necessary for all to do their work...
...election of Senior officers is the most important in Harvard, it is also the most democratic. No more righteous way of honoring Seniors seems possible. The Student Council selects the obvious candidates, and petitions signed by only twenty-five names round out their list. Unlike the Freshman farces, Senior elections guarantee, if the Class cooperates by voting intelligently, that the right men will be Marshals, Chorister, Odist, Treasurer, Orator, and Poet...
Similarly, a drive for $25,000 to be raised on U. S. campuses was begun last fortnight by the International Student Service, founded in 1919 to aid starving students in Europe. There are now 30,000 such in China. Apart from what U. S. mission boards are doing, China hopes to keep its higher learning aglow by establishing four university centres inland, away from war zones, which most students may attend for nothing. Two such centres have already been started, at Changsha in Hunan Province, and Sian in Shensi...
...could not prove that pectin kills bacteria in the bowels and in that way stops intestinal ailments. But, being everlastingly inquisitive. Dr. Edith Haynes of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, a home economics student who became a bacteriologist in order to learn what happened in her pots, continued to experiment, found that sores kept sopping wet with a water solution of pectin* healed with extraordinary speed...
...same as that of the old-fashioned player piano, minus that part of the machinery which does the actual pressing & releasing of the keys. A motor-driven player-roll mechanism flashes a light beneath each transparent key at the moment when it should be struck. Wherever the student sees a flash he pounces. While the Piano Master requires a specially built piano, a modification, the Key Master, may be fitted to any old family upright. The Key Master flashes lights in a dummy keyboard above the keys. So highly does Chicago's Story & Clark Piano Co. regard the Piano...