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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, President of the University, from 1910 to 1933, George Lyman Kittredge '82, the world's authority on Shakspere, Chaucer, and practically everything else connected with English literature, and Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher--Harvard names to conjure with, but the Class of 1941 will not come under the magic of their spell...
President Lowell, of course, resigned to be succeeded by James B. Conant '12 and last June, the first class that entered with the new President graduated. Since his retirement President Lowell has been seen but rarely by the average undergraduate. He usually makes an annual visit to Lowell House on his birthday, and a dinner is given there...
...sewed together in a three-dimensional geometrical object. This she described as a "polyhexagonal lacelike pattern of atoms with the characteristic lacunae or holes, the whole forming a truncated tetrahedron, a cage-like space enclosing a structure roughly resembling a six-point diamond." Molecules in this weight class were called "space-enclosing cyclols." Significance of this work is that the way a molecule is built is bound up with its chemical behavior...
...teachers locked the doors on themselves and their 22 pupils (grades 1 to 4), pulled down the shades to keep the curious from looking in, and taught in semidarkness. They did not get along badly. Miss Innes conducted the class. Mrs. Bucklyn advised individual pupils. As the town made no move to oust either, the somewhat puzzled pupils continued to get double education...
...hustled out of town for the Labor Day weekend, the market had been falling steadily for three weeks. Supposedly it had fully discounted both war in China and a sudden wave of pessimism over fall business prospects. But the day sun-browned brokers returned from their holiday, a first-class European crisis burst on the front page. Apparently it caught Wall Street at a psychologically vulnerable moment. The market was thin, the selling persistent. Routed from its long rut, the trading volume soared to 1,870,000 shares, and at times the ticker was as much as three minutes behind...