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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University course today will differ from that of last year and from that of last week. It will start at the Larz Anderson bridge on the Cambridge side, continue past the corner of the Mt. Auburn cemetery along the river, and then make two complete loops around the hill near the cemetery. The return course will be back along the same side of the river. The old route has been rendered impracticable because of dredging being done on the sand bank which once formed a part of the course. The distance is about five miles, and is somewhat more hilly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY HARRIERS TO RACE NEW HAMPSHIRE | 10/10/1930 | See Source »

Then Dr. Charles Frederick Buckley, school physician, recognized Harold's rubbing poison ivy on his own face as a symptom of hypo-pituitarianism. When the pituitary gland is underdeveloped the victim is subject to convulsive seizures. These fits differ from those caused by brain infections or other cranial maldevelopments in that they are apt to be erratic and to manifest themselves viciously. They appear with adolescence. Endocrinologists have discovered that young hypo-pituitarians, if untreated, become very fat, sexually undeveloped. This boy was just beginning to manifest those marks. But five to ten grains of sheep's pituitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bad Boy | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...students. Harvard asks no blind subservience to the doctrines of any man. She bespeaks tolerance and fair play and respect for the sincere opinion of others. She frowns upon all narrow-ness; she resents the imputation of unworthy motives to those from whom we may happen to differ. Her motto is truth. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trusted Leaders Needed to Advise Voters Says Bacon to Freshmen---Ability to Think is Goal | 9/20/1930 | See Source »

None, however, denied Lieut. Settle's statement that Maybach alone is proven for dirigibles,* that the power-plant requirements of airplane and airship differ as do those of racing car and motorbus. Dirigible engines must: run thousands of hours between overhauls, have low weight and low fuel consumption, be reversible in operation (for maneuvering), cool properly while maneuvering at small air speed, be safe from fire, be capable of repair in flight. In view of the requisites, particularly those of reliability, low fuel consumption and reduced fire hazard, Lieut. Settle predicts the airship engine of the future will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Wanted: Dirigible Engines | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

Although every college desires that its prospective students lay the proper foundation for advanced work, opinions differ as to the educative values to be derived from the several subjects during the secondary period. A smaller institution may find it advisable to set up more restricted prerequisites in order that there may be less range in the type of preparation which its students shall have received. The larger college has facilities to serve students of widely differing tastes and interests, provided that they possess certain common fundamentals and are equipped to do work of high quality. Similarly preparatory schools in their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Problem of College Preparatoy Student is Not the Entire Question in Secondary Education, Says Smith in Article | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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