Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copies may be obtained today at the entrance of the Dining Room in the Union. The first hundred subscribers have had their names inscribed in gold on the cover, and 12 books, which have been drawn by lot are autographed by President Lowell. Since 25 extra copies have been ordered, it is still possible for a few late subscribers to obtain copies...
This report sheds valuable light on the position of public school men in the colleges. It is evident that the high school graduate has less chance to attain distinction so far as social and extra-curricular activities are concerned, it he goes to a college where prep school men have even a slight numerical majority. On the other hand, where he predominates, the public school man seems to have every change for preferment socially and in campus activities. Indeed, the experience at Dartmouth indicates that where the prep school man is in the ascendant, it is not from any inherent...
...post last week, Head Play with Jockey Harry Fisher up was nervous. The starter tried to quiet him. then moved him to the outside, which meant an extra 30 ft. to run. It seemed to make very little difference. Fisher got his horse away fast, crossed over to the inside and took the lead going round the first turn. At the half mile, he broke away from the field to a lead of more than a length. Ladysman tried to keep up but could not. Charley O held on going to the second turn but could not overtake the leader...
...like thunderstorms and street cars, the source of the static is terrestrial, the hiss should have the same intensity all year round. But it varies with the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, as if Earth periodically gets between the radio receiver and an extra-terrestrial source of the hiss. In this variation the Jansky waves differ from Dr. Millikan's cosmic rays and Dr. Vesto Melvin Slipher's cosmic radiation (TIME. May 1). Directional studies show that the hiss must originate near the point in the Milky Way toward which...
...Overseers, who will vote upon it immediately but must then table the matter for at least week. Whether the name of the Corporation's choice will be made public before the Overseers act a second time is problematical. In the event that it is announced today, a CRIMSON extra will be published...