Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write a biography of Henry Ford. He illustrates instead the period of American development that is best illuminated by the highlights of Ford's career. The result is a logical piece of writing, efficient in its grasp of factual detail, but devoid of any great inspiration. Perhaps the subject matter is too familiar; perhaps the perspective too short. Unheralded by newspaper publicity, the first of the highlights were the successive experiments in mechanics that culminated in the historic Lizzy, Model T. For five years Model T was turned out of the Dearborn factory with increasingly unbelievable speed till...
Contrast Mr. Bingham's tactics with those of President Lowell. President Lowell will not speak to newspapermen on any subject. Harvard, he says, does not need to advertise. No one will quarrel with him on this point; not, certainly, Mr. Bingham. But people are interested in Harvard, among them 80,000 graduates. Even if they are given no information they should at least he spared the misapprehensions and the irritations which are the natural outcome of misinformation. Mr. Lowell cannot hope to keep Harvard out of the papers any more than the assistant football manager can hope to suppress...
...radio colloquium will be held this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Cruft Laboratory. J. P. Hervey will speak on the subject. "An Attempt to Solve the Design Problem of Intermediate Frequency Amplifiers". Tea will be served in the lecture room at 4.15 o'clock, and everyone interested is invited...
...Sociology and Social Ethics appear to be fully in accord not only with good sense but established precedent. History, Government and Economics has for sometime required three general examinations, one in the field as a whole, one in the department specialized in, and one in a very much narrower subject within the department. By adapting similar regulations, the committee in charge of Sociology and Social Ethics insure that those studying the complex mosaic of human society will not sacrifice proper balance of background to the desire for spotlight definition of isolated detail...
...open meeting of the Boston Menorah Council, to be held in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 7.45 o'clock. Dr. Alfred Marcus, a graduate of the Harvard Medical School and a prominent New York physician and teacher, will be the principal speaker. His subject will be "Exciting Moments in the Life of a Scholar...