Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Wambaugh, therefore, gathered four or five men from the third year class of the Law School, hired an office in Central Square and waited. Clients flocked to the office, but unfortunately they did not bring the legal problems for which he had hoped. Instead of wage disputes, and landlord and tenant cases, the clients wished advice concerning their marital obligations and disputes. He felt that the social agencies were better equipped to handle this sort of case than were students of the Law School, and after about two years the experiment was given...
...erecting a large building to be known as Rhodes House, at Oxford University, as a center for the activities and influences of the Trust, according to information recently received here from Oxford, England. The new structure has a three-fold purpose. It will, in the first place, provide a central hall for the annual dinners which are given in accordance with Cecil Rhodes will. A library with shelf space for 60,000 volumes will also be installed in the building to relieve the congestion in Bodleian Library. Finally, Rhodes House is to serve as a gathering place for former Rhodes...
Friday afternoon tilts with a team of graduates form the central feature of the fall practice schedule for the University lacrosse team, now working out daily under the direction of Coach Talbot. A former Crimson captain and a former coach are included in the aggregation of alumni which is to provide the opposition for the University outfit...
...Central Africa, west of the Congo River, was visited by a strange terror-Dr. James P. Chapin, associate curator of birds of the American Museum of Natural History. Little monkeys chattered and cried to one another in the treetops that the white-faced hunter had taken 2,500 lives out of feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death...
...scanning the first installment of Jalna to discover a robust and brawny fiction, crowded with characters energetically alive, scampering into unexpected breaches of decorum. More than that, this book is one of the few important literary works which has come out of Canada in many a year. The central figure of the story,. Alayne, a participant of a more effete civilization, shares the reader's interest and bewilderment at the gnarled fibrous character of old Adeline, who towers over the book like a huge shadowy tree, leaves stirring in the wind, roots stirring in the tight, tough soil...