Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors of the present issue of The Harvard Advocate have striven, as good editors always should, to produce a well balanced issue. And as far as the amount of pagination devoted to the various branches of literature is concerned, they have succeeded. Prose fiction is represented by three stories, criticism by a note on James Branch Cabell, an editorial and three book reviews, and poetry by two items...
...great big question mark. Regardless of what posterity will ultimately decide to be the permanent value of these authors, I cannot help feeling that such an editorial at this particular moment is a sign of health,--or else of some healthy influences. But Mr. Blanc awards to James Branch Cabell something far less equivocal than an interrogation mark. In fact, he pushes him into a rear seat with so ungentlemanly a shove that it almost becomes a punch below the belt. It was not very long ago, was it, that the hall-mark of the sophisticated undergraduate was an intimate...
...lunch that the Vagabond fell in with the country doctor. This member of the most noble branch of a noble calling had just finished a call and was about to go off on another, but he spared the moment for a bit of light talk. It seemed that his father had died when he was two, leaving his mother with several worldly children and a few ethereal dividends. There followed for him the public schools with their trials and tribulations, until in his senior year he saw, through the gloom of adolescent disinterestedness, the gleam of his future profession...
...Faulty construction of various departments has resulted in extremely unsatisfactory conditions . . . enormous losses from waste and breakage in construction ... the conveyor branch is not working due to the fact that several departments have been only partly completed...
Frederick William Roberts '33, of New Monmouth, N. J., was elected chairman of the Harvard Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for the year 1932-33 at a meeting held in the Cruft Laboratory lecture room last night...