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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vision of the ultimate college examinations--the Clashing Rocks through which he must pass to save his soul alive. . . . Thus an enormous moral pressure is put on him to make him do an intelligent thing--and this on an urchin who has never been taught to use his mind." He and others shuddered at the mania for size which had seized the wealthier schools, the turning of headmasters into highly efficient administrative officers, the loss of close contact between student and teacher. And these evils have persisted and swelled, so that President Conant's report and the committee to study...
...trade supremacy in Argentina threatened, Britain some time ago began to knobble U. S. competition. She reportedly "requested" Argentina not to use British sterling to balance her obligations to the U. S., and Argentina is anxious to keep the economic patronage of a nation which buys the largest share of her chief products, grains and meat. Three months ago Argentina went further, set up a rigid exchange control plan...
...hormones is a theory well-known to biologists. Four years ago Biochemist Hector Mortimer of Montreal's McGill University and his colleagues, Dr. Robert Percy Wright and Nobel Prize-sharer James Bertram Collip, one of the discoverers of insulin, decided to put the theory to practical use. They dropped small amounts of female sex hormone estrogen into the noses of patients who suffered from atrophic rhinitis (withering of the nasal mucous membranes). Many patients recovered. But they were amazed when one woman announced that a ringing in her ears, which had irritated her for a long time, had cleared...
...beneficiaries of the will of Augustus Gardiner Cobb, of New York City, the President and Fellows of Harvard College will soon receive approximately $700,000, for use in the Law School, it was exclusively learned by the CRIMSON Saturday from the Treasurer's office...
...left to "establish a fund in aid of the Harvard Law School," and this fund is to be known as the "Emory Washburn Memorial Fund, endowed by a member of the Class of 1872." Only the income may be used, but there are no other restrictions as to use of the money by the Law School. Although it is not known how the bequest will be invested, it would seem to be a safe prediction that the income will amount to at least $20,000 a year and probably more...