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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faults prevent the publication of books other than those printed at the expense of the University. Many of these have such a limited market that no commercial house will take them, the University Press can hardly pretend to fulfill its initial purpose. As long as the Press is complacently content to play a minor role it may do so; but its possibilities are so great, it is to be regretted that they have not yet been realized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAD IMPRESSION | 3/22/1932 | See Source »

...quarters in Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall, and those who indicated the House as their second or third choice. The regulations of most Masters stand in the way of men who would shift their House allegiance; only a few Adams residents have made such requests; the majority are well content. And it has been well advertised: its doings have been chronicled in the press, its head has spoken in the Union--as have others, of course. After all, as a colleague remarked, "You just can't have the seventh House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSES IN OPERATION: ADAMS HOUSE | 3/16/1932 | See Source »

...present spurious coins are of such perfect impressions that identification by the design is impossible for the layman. Due to lead content, however, their color tends to be darker than that of the true tokens and they can be cut more easily with a pen-knife. Anyone attempting to pass a counterfeit coin is liable to immediate arrest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATES IN ON "SHOVING OF THE QUEER" | 3/9/1932 | See Source »

...both half years by a comfortable margin. In the first half year Dunster captured league A with considerable ease, but was nosed out in league B by Lowell. In the latter half of the season the tables were reversed and Lowell captured league A, while Dunster tried to content itself with the crown in league...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD RIVALS CLASH IN SQUASH | 3/8/1932 | See Source »

Millman is at work on a thesis concerned with meteors. He attributed the greenish light of the meteor to a large magnesium content which in a vaporized state brought about by the intense heat of friction combines with atoms of the rarified air to form an incandescent gas cap rushing before the meteor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Receives Many Replies To Appeal For Meteor Reports--Millman Reveals Significance of Astral Nomads | 3/4/1932 | See Source »

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