Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While there has been steady transplanting of objects during the last month, it has consisted in the moving of cases from the attic and cellar, and of furniture. These were objects not in use or on exhibition, and their removal to the storeroom in the new museum caused no inconvenience to the work of the department...
...plans for this year's Junior Prom which will be held in Memorial Hall on March 18 were announced last night by W.A. Magi '28, chairman of the Prom committee. As in last year's dance, there will be no programs; in all years prior to last, the use to programs had been customary. Boxes will be arranged for groups of six or 12 couples, and it is essential that all those going to the Prom should make a special effort to arrange boxes in groups of these sizes as the committee will assign all who have not done this...
...Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, Sport-Writer W. O. McGeehan and Actress Genevieve Tobin, Dr. Frank Crane and Critic Baird Leonard of Life. At these, in the pairs named, and at other notables, they directed a rushing stream of questions: "What style of writing did the early Babylonians use?" "What is coral? . . . a centaur? . . . a Bunsen burner? . . . the longest bridge in the world?" "How do kangaroos carry their offspring?" "What is a morganatic marriage ? " "Who was the 'Wild Bull of the Pampas'?" Each pair of experimentees answered a separate set of 50 questions. The lowest score...
Said Director J. L. Blumenthal of the bureau of child hygiene, New York City: "The really fat baby has a mass of material that is of no use to him at all in fighting off ills and diseases of babyhood. . . . The grownups, in the interest of health, exercise. . . . Why, then, overstuff the baby so the mother can boast about...
...away from old cut-and-dried methods, which as older graduates will recall, were a bone of contention between the University and its Western alumni a decade or more ago. We do not believe that any rule of thumb test, whatever it is called, will be of much use in discovering a boy's aptitude for college work. But the Scholastic Aptitude tests that are now being experimented with avoid that error; if they are not given too great weight, they can be of some use without doubt. The danger in that sort of thing always lies...