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...North Atlantic is March 1 to July 1. The bergs are fragments of the mile-thick ice sheet which covers most of Greenland, sends glaciers down to the coast where huge chunks break off. Bergs "calved" on Greenland's west coast are first carried by a northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter in Baffin...
...provide Harvard men with something of a thrill. In addition, it was enough to give them an acute inferiority complex enough to convince them that they went out with clay pipes instead of silver spoons. Most Harvard graduates, infers Mr. Tunis, must have the fate of Broadway's current Harvard man-the spectacular specimen in "The Priterose Path...
There has been rioting in the streets before. There have been tax quarrels and American Legion disturbances. But never yet in three centuries of Harvard have relations with Cambridge been in such an awful state of collapse. The current ruction has its background in the refusal of President Conant to give the city a hundred thousand dollar financial crutch. The action of the piece, however, is the unhappy participation of Harvard students in the memorial services at Weeks Bridge. As a result of this, there are signs of a storm...
...lead editorial in the current issue of Harvard's oldest publication, the editors of the Advocate urge the stamping out of the tutoring schools as the only alternative to the placing of administrative restrictions on the undergraduate's traditional freedom to cut as many classes as he likes...
...unruffled beside him. But never does he go by airplane. Few years ago only stockholders in the company were Martin and Motorman Louis Chevrolet. But in 1934, with funds needed for expansion, 325,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. were put on the market at $11.50 a share (current price: $34.625). Today, Martin remains well in control with some 37% of the stock in his hands, but the bankers who are now interested in his company have taken him out of the air. Because Martin is the Martin Company they are taking no chances. His life is insured...