Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coeducational. If the choice be literature, Michigan professors will suggest reading, supervise courses. If architecture, they will bul- letin the latest advances in structure and design. If science, they will describe discoveries on demand. Alumni will be free to visit their chosen departments, quiz professors, write letters of inquiry, use the library or the laboratories. They will be perpetual students. No one will ever be graduated. Tuition fees will be voluntary, according to the wealth or generosity of the individual...
Knowledge that three out of four people in the U. S. do not use tooth brushes vexed dentists who, although they were attending the 64th annual meeting of the Chicago Dental Society last week, represented the profession throughout the country. The Chicago society has taken national rank next to only the American Dental Association (which meets in Minneapolis next August...
Braille is familiar, but too few people know its history, understand how blind people use it. In 1771, Valentine Haiiy, a Frenchman, saw a troupe of blind beggars performing tricks in the street. Touched by the spectacle, he determined to find some way to aid blind people, some way in which, if they could never see, they might at least learn to read. His method, a system of printing books with embossed letters, was developed and improved by Louis Braille. The code which bears his name is an alphabet in which the letters are represented by raised dots, differing...
...City. At the head of the board of trustees will stand Grace Knight Babson, wife of Trustee Roger Ward Babson, famed financial dopester. At Babson Park, Massachusetts, Trustee Babson creates charts, graphs, tables of statistics, advises investors. At Babson Park, Florida, Chairman Grace Babson will train her flock to use charts, graphs, statistics, become investors. Trustees of Bennington College, chartered in 1924, to open next year, announced last week that they will provide "a curriculum planned to prepare women to meet the problems of the modern world." Other aims: emphasis on the individual, learning through living, community life, breaking down...
...marketing their products in the year 1927, the results to the food Industries of the United States. From a study of the accounting practices of the representative firms, a standard classification, of marketing expenses has been developed, and copies have been sent to approximately 1000 grocery manufacturers for use in reporting their figures to the Bureau...