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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mich.), can be found the following statement to the right of the picture of William Franklin Knox of the Graduating class: "If you had seen me five years ago, you wouldn't know me now." Senior Knox had undergone some changes indeed. He had come pretty green to the campus in 1893 on the advice of a Presbyterian minister who told him he would be able to work his way through at Alma...
...work, sprinted on the track squad, joined Zeta Sigma (local), and marched with the Cadets. To top it all, he had gone off in his senior year with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders to fight the Spaniards. Now, in 1898, he was about to get married to a campus sweetheart and start working on a newspaper...
...alumni, no matter how perfectly they conformed to the collegiate pattern of life in pre-diploma days, be expected to defend undergraduate realism. A year off the campus and the average alumnus is more apt to remember the good time he had a such and such Christmas formal, the weekend of the Purdue, game, or in the Mask & Wig show rather than the fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much...
...balmy spring night last week two men were alone in a big brick building on the Princeton University campus. Physics Professor Rudolf Walter Ladenburg, 53, and Research Associate Cletus Clinton Van Voorhis, 50, were so interested in their atom-smashing experiments that they had come back to the physics laboratory to work after dinner. For bullets they used neutrons. The neutrons were knocked out of beryllium by alpha particles from radium. The beryllium and 200 milligrams of radium sulphate, worth $4,000, were in a metal tube. One of the scientists started to solder a loose cap on the tube...
UNIVERSITY and colleges in eastern United States were thrown into turmoil when the raging waters of swollen rivers flooded their campuses, cut off water and electricity. Classes became irregular, and many were poorly attended because of difficulty in reaching campus buildings and because of students interest in flood activities. Many institutions threw their buildings open to flood refuges and aided in their care...