Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your edition of May 27, p. 44, under the caption of Golden Jubilee, you omitted to mention the most important glass bulb without which the incandescent lamp would be impossible. The credit for the development of producing these bulbs on the scale required today belongs to the Corning Glass Works, and no small share of it to Ambassador Houghton* and his associates, who had the foresight and imagination to spend a fortune on the development of machines that would blow these bulbs, and on glass research, so that these machines could be worked. The earliest lamp bulbs were blown from...
Although the show is not arranged in chronological order there are fabrics from Egypt and Peruvia dating from the Pre-Christian era, as well as examples of the work of modern times. Recent accessions which are now on display at the Fogg include embroideries, prints, Oriental paintings, sculpture and pottery and an antiphonary with illuminations by Lippo Vani...
...Senior year he was the leading hitter on the University nine and provided a powerful stimulus to the strong Crimson team with his excellent work behind the bat. Chauncey who was a Groton school graduate was also prominent in Freshman affairs being chairman of the Freshman Smoker Committee and also a member of the Freshman Executive Board. Though a member of the Class of 1928. Chauncey received his Harvard degree in 1927 and for the last two years has been at the Penn Charter school at Germantown...
...however inadequate a single three hour examination may be to test the fruits of a whole year's work, it would seem to be a sound principle that a man should be graded on his knowledge and ability at the completion of his labors rather than during their course. It is partially the recognition of this principle that has given rise to the divisional examinations. And just as in the awarding of a degree it is of importance what a student can show in the second half of his Senior year and not what he has done as a Sophomore...
...midyear and final examinations. In order to arrive at a correct judgment upon the total record in a course, a value must be assigned to each of its components. Unless the final grade is to be no more than a rough approximation of the true value of the work done in a course, a unit of measurement must be adopted and all letter grades recomputed in terms of that unit. For example, how much weight should be assigned to the final examination and to the weekly papers, respectively...