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...gift of $2,000,000 from Lucius N. Littauer, is Scheduled to take shape. This year also the Graduate School of Education has been reorganized. The curriculum will be more closely related to that of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and general examinations will largely supplant course credits in the pursuit of the degree. Finally, President Conant must continue his search for a Dean for the Law School, a post vacant since the resignation of Dean Roscoe Pound last year...
Since radial air-cooled engines began to supplant other types, their power has been steadily stepped up by supercharging, higher compression, stronger parts and fuels with higher octane rating. Pratt & Whitney began to think that not much more could be asked of radial engines in single nine-cylinder banks. Since 1929 they have been tinkering with 14 cylinders in two banks, with smaller bores and lighter, more frequent power impulses...
...Senator Black quietly asked the Senate for $25,000 to continue his efforts, loudly told the Press: "I am not surprised that the Liberty League and Mr. Hearst and others who think they are bigger than the Government should try to enjoin the Senate. They have already tried to supplant the Supreme Court. There is nothing they would not attempt to do to continue the operation of the United States Government like Mr. Hearst administers his baronial estate...
...courses, a student is likely to have acquired the "course" attitude, and this can only be changed by a vital reduction in requirements. Holding the general examinations at the end of both the Junior and Senior years, as is now done, in certain departments, and increasing their number would supplant any necoealty for course examinations...
...shown by the figures of the A. F. of L. will inevitably lead to national bankruptcy and disaster, Upton Sinclair and Hamilton Fish, Jr. '10, agreed in a debate last night held under the auspices of the Ford Hall Forum. On the question "Resolved, That production for use shall supplant production for profit," the two speakers differed widely. First to speak, Sinclair took the affirmative, reiterating the principles of his Epic Plan...