Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of meals per week which each Freshman will be allowed need not be as great as is allowed each upperclassman who takes 21 meals. As a tentative opening, each man might be allowed one meal a week in any House he chose. Authorities, moreover, have small reason to fear a demand for a reciprocal agreement, allowing upperclassmen to eat in the Union. In short, a move allowing Freshmen limited inter-House dining privileges would be well advised; it could scarcely lead to the abuses which its opponents fear...
Following is the tabulated list of the different sports, and the number of men who chose them, last winter and this: Activity Class of '35 Class of '36 Swimming 194 252 Squash 178 209 Special Corrective Exercises 102 107 Crew 81 (71) Track 80 91 Basketball 62 (57) Handball 61 (50) Wrestling 40 (38) Fencing 24 (36) Hockey 22 (34) Boxing 22 58 Gymnasium 20 37 Miscellaneous...
...last week, when they met again, United Fruit's directors were quite accustomed to shocks. They were not surprised, therefore, when President Cutter tendered his resignation. They immediately elected him board chairman, an office which had not previously existed. To be president they chose their fellow director Francis Russell Hart, Boston banker (Old Colony Trust Co.), onetime U. S. consul in Colombia, historian, gourmet. As president Mr. Hart would not interfere with Sam Zemurray's direction of United Fruit; as board chairman Mr. Cutter could...
Johns Hopkins' Pharmacologist John Jacob Abel, 75, assumed the A. A. A. S. presidency, succeeding Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas, 74. For 1934 president the Association chose Princeton's Astronomer Henry Norris Russell, 55, after he had presented his interpretation of starlight. The light might be the effect of 1) hydrogen and the lighter elements synthesizing into heavier elements, or 2) heavy star material burning to nothing. Professor Russell prefers the synthesis theory, for burning "would not happen except at temperatures of many billions of degrees," whereas "heat should be produced [by atomic synthesis] fast enough...
Most notable personal milestone in the one-generation industry occurred when one of its pioneers chose to retire into the chairmanship of the company bearing his name. He was Charles Williams Nash, 68, who once owned 20 sheep and little else, whose fortune grew with the Industry until it was said to have made him 100 times a millionaire. Earl Hansen McCarty, 46, succeeded him as president. Mr. Nash began as a carriage-trimmer in the old Flint Road Cart Co. From 1912 through 1916 he presided over General Motors, having rehabilitated the old Buick Motor Car Co. He then...