Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History and Literature Prize is given annually to the Junior who shows the greatest promise among the men concentrating in the field. It amounts to fifty dollars, the money to be expended "within a year from the time of the award in the purchase of books of any description except current fiction." When the purchase is completed the winner must send to the field's Committee a list of the works acquired, together with a description of the editions and the prices paid. John A. Moore '38 received the award last year...
Professor Weston heads all four courses in literature, but they are never all given together. His failing is the same as that noted in Spanish--his literature courses, except perhaps Italian 10 on Dante, consist of literal translations with little or no appreciation or background, and are therefore dull for the advanced student. 4 is his half course on literature in general; in course 5, on modern literature, he devotes three fourths of the time to poetry, and the class consists mainly of translation...
While to the Columbians the race was the season's windup, except for a trial jaunt at Poughkeepsie, the Harvard swingers were rounding into form for the four-mile grind against Yale. The Lions had nothing to lose and kept slugging away at a 36 count as against the Crimson's faultless...
...Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, principal subsidiary of U. S. Steel, last week reaffirmed for the third quarter present prices for delivery and consumption in the U. S., except certain flat-rolled products. This was interpreted as confirming wage rates, for Steel officers have said prices could not be cut without cutting wages. At S. W. O. C. headquarters in Pittsburgh, Statistician Harold Ruttenberg reported that steel jobs had fallen from 602,000 last August to about...
...months ago, the Legislature passed a bill that was Mr. Merriam's personal solution of the problem. It provided for a State Lands Commission to receive bids; but because it prohibited all drilling except by whip-stocking, the chief company that could submit bids was Standard Oil. Culbert Olson blew up. He will probably be the next Democratic candidate for Governor; Frank Merriam will probably be the Republican candidate. No Californian doubts what will be the prime campaign issue...