Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Section V takes up the tutorial system in great detail. The committee regards the system as basically sound, but believes it has certain faults arising from individual practices on the part of tutors and students which should be recognized. A tabular study of departments brings out the fact that there are too few tutors in certain departments particularly in English and Romance languages. The report deplores the tendency of certain tutors to coach students specifically for the examinations, as well as that tendency sometimes noted for the tutor to devote the conference hour to lecture practice. It is recommended that...
...airplane is master of the heights, is the submarine master of the depths. The lowest which a U. S. submarine has ever gone is 315 feet below surface-and that only by accident.* Last week off Portsmouth, N. H., Lieutenant Commander George A. Rood took the new V-2 down to 220 feet. To get there it took three different plunges-first to a depth of 50 feet, then a shifting of ballast, a plunge to 110 feet, another ballast-adjustment, and then a final plunge to 220 feet, at which level the underwater boat traveled successfully some seven miles...
...route to the sea. And a Buffalo lawyer, Millard F. Bowen, offered to form a public service corporation to dredge and operate the New York canal free of charge in return for certain waterpower rights. Mr. Bowen's offer received little attention, but debate on the New York v. the St. Lawrence route occupied much time in Washington committee rooms last fortnight, developed into a hot sectional fight, the Midwest turning out with surprising unanimity to favor the St. Lawrence route...
...below the surface went the submarine V-2-How far? (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, 88, famed and discriminating philanthropist, widow of the noted financier who was one of the early partners of John D. Rockefeller in developing the Standard Oil Co., mother of the late Charles W. Harkness (Yale '83) in memory of whom she gave to Yale university a dormitory accommodating 600 students, the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle, mother of Edward Stephen Harkness ( Director N. Y. C. R. R., etc.); at Manhattan, of pneumonia...