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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another exhibit shows bark cloth (tapa). The Pacific islanders made it by pounding the fibrous inner bark of certain trees. So did Indians in Nicaragua and Mexico. The cloth of both hemispheres is the same papery stuff, and the wood and stone pounding tools the two peoples used (shown in the exhibit) are so similar that they might have been made by the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hints from Asia | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

That concept included murder "by the commission of heaven," said the "guardian angel," who reluctantly gave his name as Gil-Martin. He indicated a certain anti-predestinarian divine: "If the man Blanchard is worthy, he is only changing his situation for a better one; and, if unworthy, it is better that one fall than that a thousand souls perish." Robert agreed, and did the deed with a little golden pistol his guardian gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-Christicm Soldier | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...typical problem in education would appear like this: We are given letter grades in four coursed for a certain number of individuals. We would like to pool these letter grades to form a scale of scholastic achievement. Since the distribution of grades in the several courses are quite different, even more variable must be considered in the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calculating Machines Can Yield National Industrial Production Goals, Expert Says | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Dues of commuters affiliated with certain dormitories may be reduced upon decision of the Student Government Association. This recommendation is in line with the College policy of fostering resident-commuter relations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Conference Meets To Advise 1949-50 Policies | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...rooting section itself is not the haphazard affair of an Ivy League school. There are two oblong sections, one for roughs, the other for coeds. All the roughs wear white shirts and rooters' caps. These caps are red on one side and white on the other. Certain designated people wear the red side of their hats up; everyone else wears white. The result of this folderol is a red S on a white background. Meanwhile the girls' section is com- Pletely equipped with pompoms. These are sticks with a lot of red and white confetti on the and, Whenever anything...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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