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...decade ago the Faculty Club bequeathed Warren House to English A and moved into an attractive red-brick building next door. The mothbitten stuffed caribou head, which has trailed the professors since they first met in the chapel of University Hall, was installed over the mantel. And the traditional stodginess (which once caused a History 1 section man to propose "Slow, slow, inconceivably slow" as the club's motto) was also transferred to the new quarters. Younger instructors, therefore, still found the Square cafeterias more reasonable and the undergraduate Houses more congenial. Few of them sought membership; and the large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY CLUBMEN | 12/7/1940 | See Source »

Wilson C. Piper 2L, Caribou, Me.; William E. Read 3L, Flint, Mich.; Peter J. Repetti 2L, Newark, N. J.; Leon W. Robinson 2L, Trenton, N. J.; Sydney R. Rubin 2L, Williamson, N. Y.; Richard H. Schannen 2L, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Herman J. Schmidt 3L, Davenport, Ia.; Julius L. Shack 2L, Mattapan, Mass.; Harry L. Shinderman 3L, Erie, Pa.; Arthur R. Silsdorf 2L, New York, N. Y.; Stanley M. Silverberg 2L, New York, N. Y.; Allan H. Smith 2L, Baker, Ore.; Edward A. Smith 2L, Worcester, Mass.; George A. Smith 3L, Atlanta, Ga.; William F. Smith 2L, Los Angeles, Calif.; Felix...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS GO TO EIGHTY TWO LAW STUDENTS | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

Robert H. Loeb 3L, Birmingham, Ala.; John F. O'Conor 2L, Cincinnati, Ohio; Wilson C. Piper 2L, Caribou, Me.; John B. Poor 3L, Andover, Me.; John N. Stern 2L, Chicago, Ill.; Robert O. Swados 3L, Buffalo, N. Y.; John R. Taylor 2L, Chicago, Ill.; Leonard Ugelow 2L, St. Albans, N. Y.; and Joseph M. Well 2L, Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16 Student Advisors Chosen at Law School | 10/4/1940 | See Source »

...crazy, wrote Animal Lover Ellsworth Jaeger in Nature Magazine last week. They merely carry on ancient dance patterns which lower animals developed eons before man appeared on the earth. Jive-Justifier Jaeger described jitterbug patterns of 16 animals, ranging all the way from "thread legged bugs" to caribou. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jitterzoo | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...animals were imported. Finding good forage-mosses, lichens, shrubs, summer blueberries, ground willow-the herds eventually increased to over a million. Then they began to dwindle. Wolves, which developed a finicky taste for reindeer tongues, took a heavy toll. Some reindeer wandered off to join the wild caribou. White herders had encroached on the field. One big firm, the Lomen brothers, built slaughterhouses and railway loading platforms, began shipping choice reindeer steaks and reindeer dog food to the States. Discouraged by this high-powered competition, the Eskimos began to lose much of their interest in herding reindeer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reindeer to Eskimos | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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