Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still march across the close-clipped green. Some new buildings have been added to the architectural hodgepodge. There are new fraternities; Tyler Dennett's own local AZA has become national Phi Gamma Delta. But he will find many a familiar face in the faculty. Three years ago a census revealed that one-sixth of Williams' professors had taught there more than a quarter-century...
...Long before Professor Gerhardt of Berlin could make use of astronomy in his researches, the church father Hippolytus picked April 2 as Christ's birthday. Arguments against its falling in winter are that this is Palestine's rainy season: the Romans would not have then held the census which brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem; nor would the shepherds who gathered around Christ's manger have had their flocks in the fields in such weather...
...month. Captain Donahue of the Brattle Square station stated yesterday that those cars will be towed off the streets starting tonight thus following the procedure of last year. Second offenders will be summoned to court because of pressure brought upon the police by garage owners who make their own census of overnight parkers every night. Every effort will be made to make the drive as effective as that in September...
...birthplaces of native born of native parentage throws an interesting light on the attendance of the Exposition. The East North Central census section (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin) produced 41 per cent, the Middle Atlantic (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania) sent 17 per cent, as did the West North Central (Iowa, Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas). Other districts sent distinctly smaller proportions, so it would seem that the attendance varied almost directly with the proximity of the birthplace to Chicago...
...infuriated Indians by asserting that native girls begin bearing children at 8 or 9, that births at 12 or 13 were common. Indian medical men argued that the average age of puberty in India was 12, that births under 15 were rare. But incontestable was a 1929 census report which revealed 2,600 births in the U. S. to mothers under...