Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be synchronized with absolute perfection. Atmospheric disturbances also may dislodge the star image from the cross-wires. Last week astronomers Albert E. Whitford and G. E. Kron of the University of Wisconsin announced satisfactory preliminary tests of a robot which, they hope, will relieve stargazers of this dull task. Light from the star is split by a reflecting .knife edge so that two beams fall on a photoelectric cell. If in the telescope the star image gets off the cross-wires, the two beams become unequal. The proper adjustment is then made by a mechanism in which the photoelectric...
After three days of hearings U. S. Attorney Charles D. McAvoy stepped in, announced he would seek grand jury investigation. Seventeen days after the Sabath Committee arrived in Philadelphia, a jury began its task. On Sept. 18, the first indictments were returned, on Sept. 28 a second batch. But they were not made public and the jury continued...
...tolerance and infused with the Emersonian doctrine of self-reliance, the student in Cambridge tends to build about himself a crustaccous shell, when it comes to participating in group agitation. Yet in a college where each member, student and faculty alike, is left free to pursue his given task and no official thought is paid to caste, creed, color, or previous condition of servitude, the average Harvard man finds it hard to see just what he can really agitate about. Student publications, for instance are not victimized by political censorship, such as "The Daily Texan" has had planted over...
...charge of the acting will be the expert Dickensian director, Francis J. Whitfield IG., while Walter E. Teschan '37 will have the task of making students look like biddies. Members of the committee in charge of production are: Stephen Greene '38, Philip S. Haring '37, John S. Kelly '37, and Teschan...
...During the late winter and early spring a familiar figure in college placement offices is the industrial recruiter, whose task is to select young men for apprenticeship jobs in the various departments of his company. Usually he represents the larger corporations, and may come from a city a thousand miles away. Harvard is ordinarily but one stop in his itinerary which often includes as many as twenty or more colleges. He is here for a day or so and may interview as many as twenty-five students, some of whom may receive offers of employment from the company several weeks...