Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born last week on U. S. campuses, amid the crash of arriving trunks and the scratching of multitudinous pens on official blanks, was an entity known as the Class of 1940. Its 300,000 members, according to a survey made at University of Illinois, are better nourished and better developed than their predecessors, 87% of them being in "good-to-excellent physical shape." Its New England members, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, are the tallest group of human beings in the world, 178.03 centimeters (circa 5 ft. 10 in.). First official act of the Class...
With a controversy raging to and fro over parietal rules and with petitions flying fast in all the Houses, a survey reveals that few really know the rules at present, or in what respect they were amended this year...
Among the students enrollest are Robert S. Colquhon of London, England, who is Assistant Engineer for the Grester London Highway Development Survey, now engaged in preparing a highway development plan for the Leaden region. During his career he has held a number of important positions as assistant to engineers and town planning officers in England...
...strictly anti-New Deal platform, the Michigan trend against the Roosevelt Administration looked so strong to the Detroit Free Press that it published an editorial making fun of all straw votes and polls which indicated that the State was politically nip & tuck, announced that Dr. Daniel Starch's survey which had been appearing in its columns would be discontinued...
...birthday. Harvard has had a brilliant past. These recent developments show that Harvard, aware of the great changes that are taking place in the society of which she is a part, is prepared, now as always, to furnish that Intellectual leadership which has invariably been her glory. As we survey the transitory present, we may rejoice that a new Harvard is being shaped on the old foundations--a Harvard ready as always, to adapt herself to the needs of her age, but still standing a stronghold for the traditions and guiding principles of the past a Harvard which will justify...