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...means given these guarantees. No indication has been given that the figures will be properly treated. There is a vague hint that the material may be turned over to the Harvard Psychological department; but that is all. And, what is a great deal worse from an immediate standpoint, the circular contains the statement that the statistics will be made available to undergraduates, which is to say to the public and to the press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUESTIONNAIRE | 3/15/1934 | See Source »

...water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling captive to quick death by drowning. Otherwise he is apt to find only a torn leg in his trap. Sensitive trappers, if they can afford it, use the Bailey live beaver trap, a hinged, circular device which lies flat, snaps closed when a beaver touches its trigger (see cut, p. 32). Best bait is a fresh aspen limb fastened just behind the trap. Beavers live chiefly on bark, twigs, the roots of water plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Beavers in Pennsylvania | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...last night Dean Hanford revealed that application blanks for admission to the Houses have been sent to members of the Class of 1937, and that this year for the first time men applying for rooms which rent for $180, or less, are required to fill out a special confidential circular. This special circular inquires into the student's financial prospects for 1934-35. Coincident with the distribution of these blanks, Dean Hanford announced that the final date for the choice of a field of concentration this year will be March 30 instead of the second week in April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPLICATIONS FOR ALL HOUSES GIVEN TO CLASS OF 1937 | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Yesterday morning Harvard students awoke to find a warning against war in their mail boxes, in the form of a circular letter sent around by the National Students League. The letter was a protest against the War Department's National Defense Week--"a campaign of the foulest lingism well-larded with the usual pacifistic phrases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS LEAGUE PROTESTS AGAINST WAR PREPAREDNESS | 2/16/1934 | See Source »

...first indication of strong public backing of Superintendent Gill was seen in a circular letter sent to 1000 ministers by Rev. George Lyman Paine, secretary of the Greater Boston Federation of Churches, urging them to support Gill's administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forbes Report on Norfolk Praises Gill's Administration As the Only Creditable Page in Prison History of State | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

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