Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anarchy until the final examinations. They are kept to the line by the "collections" set by the colleges, and their work in each honour school is rigorously prescribed even to the "set" books. Grades are not known, for the tutors mark their dress rehearsal examination in a complicated way--Alpha, Alpha Beta, Beta Alpha, Beta, or satis, non satis, vix satis, vix vix satis. Some of the lectures are very close to our condemned survey courses. There is a degree of specialization that is hardly safe except in a very civilized community. The man who studies history studies nothing else...
...means common at the Sorbonne, but this particular one had elaborated upon an important discovery made by her mother. It was Mlle. Irene Curie, of Paris, continuing the radiological research of her mother, Mme. Curie, joint discoverer of radium. Mlle. Irene's thesis was on the alpha rays of polonium...
...have slipped into coarse discords and fierce hurricanoes of sound and fury. Miss Kennedy, possibly because she is English, showed her mettle. The Author. Margaret Kennedy, now 29, has shown her mettle before. In school, her poetry took a prize; but she took to prose when Poet Yeats scribbled "alpha minus" after her best effort. She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play. The Ladies of Lyndon was one of the bright features...
...early morning session in preparation for an examination probably saved 10 University students from fatal accident when fire swept through the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house at 104 Mount Auburn Street yesterday morning between 2 and 3 o'clock...
...What it is made up of is still a mystery to the world and it is hoped that Professor Shapley's observations may shed some light on the subject. His lecture, which is open to the public, is given under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of the Gamma Alpha Scientific Society...