Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shame to chase an owl around on Harvard Yard not to speak of the sacrilege to kill it? The owl has been the incarnation of wisdom since ages and the saying: "to carry owls to Athens" is one of the classical phrases for anything in the line of teaching Americans democracy...
These are full-time Santas--as distinguished from the pat-them-on-their-curly-heads-and-run variety. They work roughly five hours a day, six days a week, at stores in the Boston area, at one of the most nerve-racking jobs around...
...varsity hockey squad will attempt to retaliate last week's loss to Brown tonight at Providence, but they won't have Tom Moseley around to help. The fast left wing will be spending the evening in Stillman nursing a case of chickenpox while his teammates besport themselves on the Rhode Island Auditorium ice, and the Crimson, still looking for a second win, will be working without the usual offensive punch of the second line...
...that students working under "adequate" lighting got 20 percent better grades than a control group. But a follow-up at an Ohio Western Electric plant, corelating production with lighting, went the other way: workers, believing the light was improving, jumped their output enthusiastically as the illumination was cut to around that of moonlight. It has been determined, however, that lighting of the College's present caliber will inevitably cause fatigue and a loss of efficiency...
...University. These were installed as pilot-models for Lamont; the new library will use slim-line fluorescent tubing which turns out 20 foot-candles and can be stepped up if required, at no greater operating cost than ordinary fixtures. Keyes DeW. Metcalf, library director, spent three years shopping around and employed a bunch of lighting consultants before deciding on the arrangement. The rest of the University would do well to follow his example. For inadequate lighting is one of the most serious weaknesses in Harvard's facilities...