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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the misgivings are justified or not, they certainly exist. They appear to be widespread. Obviously, Dean Landis will begin his duties in an environment far less friendly than that of Deans Langdell, Ames, Pound and Acting Dean Morgan. --The Boston Herald
...most noteworthy item in his luggage is an old-fashioned hatbox just about big enough to hold a human head. When the corpse the police are looking for is found without one, the suspicions which Danny's over-solicitude for her aunt have aroused in Olivia begin to be a ghastly certainty...
...this dam a log jam 40 feet thick and three miles long formed quickly, booming and groaning with the pressure from back stream. Meanwhile in Duluth and International Falls the toughest bars filled up with other lumberjacks waiting for the flood to subside and their own special job to begin. These were rivermen, skilled riders and drivers of logs. About 200 of them had drifted in from points north and north-west where log driving is still an annual affair. They had what the Scandinavians call "snus" (pinches of snuff) in their lower lips, steel on their feet and names...
...Examination will begin a 9.15. The blue books will be disturbed at that hour. The papers, however, will be distributed at 9 o'clock to those present. The obvious purpose of this arrangement is to allow 15 minutes extra time before the examination to those who may wish to read over the paper...
...shaking the Harvard legal world in the past few weeks should not go unheeded by the Dean. It is a sign for him to stop barnstorming about the country like a "Congressional rabble-rouser" issuing statements on strikes and the Supreme Court. It is time for the Dean to begin to think about the administrative problems that will call for his best efforts in September, and to give up the pleasure and excitement that he takes in the fray of present day politics...