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...excitement all began last Saturday, when news came from England that the skull of the famous "Piltdown Man," accepted for 40 years by authropologists and paleontologists as a relic of the earliest man, is actually a "most elaborate and carefully prepared hoax...
...Council suggested that, if reserved slips were dated by machine, duplication would be impossible for the earliest slips would be given preference. If a way of checking reserve slips cannot be devised, the reserve system used in Harvard libraries will probably be adopted. But the Radcliffe library, originally built to accommodate 400 students, is too small for this plan to be effective...
...Vigilance Committee, dating from the college's earliest history, assumes the job of instilling in each incoming class Brown's friendly tradition. The "V. C," meets the freshmen armed with 600 odd beanies, a list of college rules, and a collection of Brown songs...
Considering the fact that the choristers' earliest training includes lessons in how to keep a straight face in church, they smiled and bowed like old troupers in Chicago's Orchestra Hall. Getting used to applause, said St. Paul's Canon L. John Collins, "is like a snail leaving its house. But the boys have picked up secular work very well." They have also adapted easily to late hours; six boys are usually off each night, go to bed at 8 o'clock. "When this is over," said a choir official, "they shall...
...Shaw, Sir Winston once wrote: "He was one of my earliest antipathies . . . This bright, nimble, fierce and comprehending being, Jack Frost, dancing bespangled in the sunshine. He is at once an acquisitive capitalist and a sincere Communist...