Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spinach ranks with asparagus, green peas, and green beans as the most popular vegetable served in the University dining halls according to a survey of the situation by University officials. Among the meats, steaks hold the lead with chicken, lamb chops, and roast beef following in that order...
Last week the most exhaustive aeronautical survey ever undertaken by the Federal Government opened in Washington as the Federal Aviation Commission, headed by Atlanta's small, roly-poly Clark Howell, began public hearings. An outgrowth of the airmail contract cancellations, the Howell Committee was a belated attempt by President Roosevelt to right a wrong and, at the same time, determine a national aviation policy. Chairman Howell had spent six weeks investigating, at Government expense, the condition of aviation in Europe, while his four fellow committee members had flown some 1000 miles on an inspection tour of airways and airports...
Assuming that it is desirable that there should be lectures in every survey course and that there should be two lectures each week in most of the courses now open to Freshmen, the chief function of the section meeting is to coordinate the reading and the lectures, and serve as a clearing house for any difficulties in the minds of the students, and fill any gaps that cannot be covered in the assignments or the lectures. If time permits three minute oral reports on relevant points by members of the class should be instructive, interesting, and a guard against...
Although the subjects listed are concerned primarily with modern governmental problems. It is emphasized that it is not the main purpose of the lectures to present a survey of contemporary movement. It is the fundamental theory of the series that projects of research carried on by younger members of the government department be outlined, informally, to other members of the University...
...undergraduate publication, by definition, must rely almost wholly on the interest of undergraduates both for publication and sale. Articles therefore are earnestly solicited. To members of the class of 1938 who are interested in writing, such subjects suggest themselves as the section system, Freshman survey courses, Government 1, the inadequacy of Freshman advisers-all important problems which need discussion and exposition. Election to the editorial board will be on a basis of contributions published or assistance in office and publication work. To those interested in collecting subscriptions and advertising there is no business board. All these who are intested...