Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan was suggested by the Student Council Committee of 1926. The students who will be admitted will be selected to represent as many different types and interests as possible. They will attend the regular University classes. From the University as heretofore they will receive their degrees. The "inner college" will therefore merely stress the contacts inter se which students at large universities do not often enjoy...
...wood makes warped boards, grain and lumber dealers asked Canada's National Bureau of Research for a quick, cheap way of measuring the moisture of their goods. The Bureau instructed Professor Eli Franklin Burton of Toronto University to work on it; he put one Arnold Pitt, his graduate student, at the task. Last week their invention was perfected...
...Student Pitt measured the conductivity of various samples of grain and lumber. These he then dried in an oven, collecting the vapor in an absorbent material which he weighed before and after the baking. This is the way dealers grade their goods. Thus the researcher obtained figures on moisture content and electrical conductivity. These he correlated into a chart. So much electrical resistance meant so much water...
...Author. But it is as sociologist rather than artist that Mr. Wells wishes to be known. Student of chemistry, physics, biology, his scientific mind repeatedly comes to the rescue of emotions that have been too quick to accept a new theory. Honest, he is not afraid to satirize opinions he himself has passionately held. His wit is sharpest when he is in a temper (in person or in print), but he is a good listener and efficient host-unusual virtues for a man of genius. At 62, his intellectual vitality is almost equalled by his physical energy-his father...
...move toward wider, cutting privileges at Yale, recently initiated by the Student Council, culminated yesterday in the granting of unlimited cuts to all honor men in the three upper classes. Harvard students will recognize in this decision the establishment at New Haven of a modified Dean's List...