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Fisher claimed last night that the Council ousted him not because of any specific action, but because his "opinions and beliefs differ from theirs." He charged that the meeting resembled a "star chamber session," and that he and others present "had not been given sufficient opportunity to express their views...
Descriptions of six weeks of secretarial School and Experiments in International Living will appear in the report, which will be studied to determine how summer work opportunities differ with economic change, and to discover any particular trend since the war. The questionnaires will then be filed with the appointment bureau...
Neither, however, can be compared to Helen of Troy, about whom historians differ. Whether her face launched or on the contrary sank a thousand of Agamemnon's ships is still a meet point...
...defined an inch. Its definition of the meter was inaccurate in terms of the British inch, so when Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, head of the Office of Weights & Measures, defined in 1893 an inch as .02540005+ parts of a meter, the U.S. inch and the British inch came to differ by .000004. (This later got bargained out in an informal compromise...
There have been 296 previous Harvard Commencements, one of which was honored by the presence of Andrew Jackson, another by that of George Washington. The distinction of today's affair is that it is by far the biggest ever. This year's exercises do not differ very much in plan from those of the first Commencement Day, which came late in August, six years after the founding of the College. During the three centuries since then only a few graduations have been cancelled, but there have been several formidable threats to the proceedings...