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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although several courses were formerly offered during the eight weeks the camp was in season, the curriculum has now been reduced to one course, Engineering 300, or for those who are enroled in the College. Engineering Sciences 4. This counts as a full course toward a degree and is required of all men who are concentrating in Engineering Sciences. It deals with plane, topographic, and railroad surveying, a large part of the work being in the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPROVEMENTS TO MARK 1927 ENGINEERING CAMP | 6/2/1927 | See Source »

Yesterday afternoon 10 men reported as candidates for the combination eight which will be selected Friday or Saturday. It has been decided tentatively that this crew will be composed of five upper-classmen and three Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY OARSMEN TO RESUME WORK TODAY | 6/1/1927 | See Source »

...second week at New London. Norton, Perkins and Watts, however, will all be given opportunities to prove their worth in this respect. Beyond the precarious position of Watts at stroke there seems to be little speculation as to the first boat, although no man who has rowed on that eight seems to feel unduly sure of his place. At the beginning of the season Coach Brown decided that every man was subject to promotion or demotion until the day of the Yale race, a promise which he has kept faithfully thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY OARSMEN TO RESUME WORK TODAY | 6/1/1927 | See Source »

...Manhattan, playing pinochle, one Frank Frankenthal, night watchman, picked up his cards for a hand; saw five aces, smiled; six aces, scowled; seven aces, gasped; eight aces, leaped from his chair, whooped, gasped, fell unconscious, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Scuppers | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...EIGHT O'CLOCK CHAPEL: A Retrospect of New England College Life of the Eighties-Cornelius H. Patton and Walter T. Field- Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). Undergraduates of the Dashing Decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: The Cream | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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