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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of the rise and fall of the Trilobites is made more poignant when it is considered that in Cambrian time they were the most intelligent and promising. Probably insects arose from the earliest Trilobites. I mention this to relieve the gloom of the rise and fall of this group of animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Day In The Classroom | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...will to have erected at a distance of 100 ft. apart on high granite pedestals of uniform size and shape, statuary emblematical of the History of America- ranging in time from the earliest settlers to the present era, arranged in chronological order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Will & Willies | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...deep gratitude on this occasion is sobered by the recollection that our good fortune has come to us under the shadow of an appalling calamity. The great monument to be erected here will commemorate a son of Harvard, who while still in his earliest manhood met a here's end in one of the most touching tragedies of modern times. Life had seemed to hold out to him the fairest promise. Secure in the affection of family and friends for he had won the respect, admiration and attachment of those who knew him, free from the harsh necessity of toiling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laying of Library Cornerstone Features '13 News | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Urging that as many seniors as possible give at least a dollar this year. Henry S. Goodhue '38, class agent for the Harvard Fund Council announced yesterday that all contributions for the Fund should be sent into Wadsworth House at the earliest possible opportunity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL SENIORS URGED TO CONTRIBUTE TO FUND | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

...From the earliest times, not only Jewish but pagan husbandmen tithed (gave a tenth of) their produce to their gods-by way of the priests. Since Anglo-Saxon times the Church of England has been partially supported by arbitrary tithes, now gradually being liquidated. "God's acres" stem from such tithing. For eight years a systematized form of tithing, the Lord's Acre Plan, has flourished under the guidance of the Farmers' Federation of North Carolina. Its director is a Northern Presbyterian, Rev. Dumont Clarke, onetime Y. M. C. A. man in India, onetime religious director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lord's Acres | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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