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Until July 1, 1937 Victor Hall, assistant professor of Physiology at Stanford, gree of bathroom humor, (the W.C. was invented in 1592 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth, according to the staff of History 1) it is still in bad odor with arbiters of public taste such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN APPOINTMENTS TO COLLEGE FACULTY | 10/21/1936 | See Source »

The remainder of the program is taken up with Debussy's three symphonic sketches, "La Mer," and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The former is delightful musical description of a light, joyous variety (there is no great storm or torrent as in many other program pieces with similar names). The latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 10/8/1936 | See Source »

Josiah Quincy, Jr., in bringing to a close the celebraties of Harvard's Bicentennial, in 1836, made the following prediction: "A century will soon roll away, and there will be another clan-gathering of the sons of Harvard. They will come rushing, as it were, on the wings of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATE SPEAKS ON COLLEGE LIFE | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

I received a most delightful letter and the writer was truly a diplomat. The article stated that France would not be disposed to change her history books.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

All the scholastic apparatus of his long histories has been omitted from this vivid chronicle by the author. In the small area of 489 pages (plus index) he has attempted to tell, for the benefit of the average reader, what the average reader, will want to know. He has succeeded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 9/18/1936 | See Source »

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