Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither the Geological Survey, a board of Army, engineers, a W.P.A. committee had any use whatsoever for the project. Even the abject House, for once, baulked at initialing the plan. The most ringing denunciation came from the Senate, where Senator Vandenburg introduced masses of damaging testimony, demanded and received the support of his colleagues in casting out the measure implementing the project, which had already been started by presidential fiat...
...income has gained 33.9%, while private educational income has dropped 28.5%. Since 1934, educational income has recovered just ½%. To articulate the extent to which Depression has damaged the nation's $3,000,000,000 private educational plant, Mr. Tamblyn quotes from a U. S. Office of Education survey of 588 private secondary schools and colleges. While average expenditures between 1929 and 1935 dropped from $417,983 to $346,572, average total income fell even further, from $476,200 to $297,603. The average U. S. private school and college, in other words, is losing money. That is because...
...offering a variety of courses, several of which were justly described of "snaps", which covered a considerable amount of ground, but left unnecessary and harmful gaps in what should have been a unified whole. This year a new course, Music 1, combines some of these in a general survey course: inasmuch as there are three hundreds members of this course, the wisdom of the change speaks for itself. The entire curriculum is organized according to a new plan which took four years to evolve, the aim of which is to supply the student with a more satisfactory method of approach...
...average U. S. citizen, Niagara Hudson Power Corp. lately questionnaired 250,000 customers in upState New York. From plans based on a composite of 11,000 replies, the big utility will build model homes as a promotional push. Last week ARCHITECTURAL FORUM which prepared and interpreted the survey, published its findings...
...Harvard's 329th birthday. At the regular Chapel Service at 9:45, Reverend Raymond Calkins '90 commemorated the birth of Harvard's founder by tracing briefly the history of the college from the gift of Harvard's library and half of his estate. Mentioning only the highlights in his survey, Reverend Calkins stressed the influence Harvard has had on the development of the country as a whole and on the future...