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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most recent developments in Civil Engineering is the study of soil mechanics. This work is under the direction of Professor Arthur Casagrande. The use of earth, either for construction purposes or as foundations for carrying structures, is as old as human civilization itself. For centuries builders have witnessed gradual or sudden subsidences of their structures, when not built on solid rock, sometimes with disastrous consequences. It is a perplexing fact that this tremendous amount of human experience did not crystallize into a scientific approach to the mechanics of soils until about fifteen years...
...Radcliffe species, however, invariably use the bent arm method, pressing the textbooks to their heart, as it were. They regard the books as the dearest things they have on earth, and take pride in carrying a goodly assortment of volumes about...
Considerable comment both favorable and adverse has been circulating among those interested in Harvard affairs in regard to the proposed use of the Littauer bequest. The new School of Public Administration, although still in an embryonic state, has at last been defined and planned out. It has been argued by many who profess to be authorities on the subject that the only way to train men for government service is to apprentice them to those in public offices. This method is the only one which has been tried out, and its results do not preclude the possibility of the even...
...without one. But the militaristic point of view (exemplars: Foch, Weygand, Leonard Wood) leads to situations like the Dreyfus case; to the preservation of archaic customs like dueling in the German army; to the inflexible employment of traditional tactics when new situations have made them dangerous, such as the use of cavalry early in the World...
...universities and hotels, but provided a serious indictment of the regulation of food supplies by the federal and state governments. Admittedly, the blame does not lie with the producer, who finds he is able to save certain of his crops from insects and other pests by the use of poisonous and semi-poisonous chemicals, or with the universities and hotels who must buy such impure supplies; the blame lies with the governmental agencies, who, ignoring their duty to protect the public health, allow tainted food supplies to reach the ultimate consumer...