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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been in and out of both for a good many years. Life in a convent isn't so wild and hilarious, of course, as in a night club, which must be about the saddest spot on earth. But I never yet saw a nun who wore a long face except one, and she had the cramps. Too much Christmas candy, and the dear old lady dissipated. I visited a convent recently, and I came away with a bright memory of a "lot of girls." But they are mighty aged girls for a' that. The Sister who cooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...Freshman hockey team will face the Belmont Hill School sextet on the Charlesbank Rink this afternoon at 2.15 o'clock. It will be the second game for the 1932 aggregation, which defeated Arlington High last Wednesday by 2 to 0, on the same day that Belmont Hill lost to the University Seconds by a 3 to 2 score. HARVARD 1932 BELMONT HILL Crosby, l.w r.w., Bacon Wood, c. c., Baxter Stubbs, r.w. l.w., Pond Cunningham, l.d. r.d., Bartol Palmer, r.d. l.d., Kimball Draper, g. g., Tweedy

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 TO MEET BELMONT HILL AT CHARLESBANK RINK TODAY | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...history, sociology, criminology, anthropology and primary education have all been touched by it for better or for worse. At the present day we are witnessing a momentously critical change in the attitude of mankind. Three hundred years ago Lord Bacon formally inaugurated the scientific era, and man turned his face from God to the natural world. Today the emphasis upon the study of nature as a physical world is being to some extent replaced by an emphasis upon the study of human nature as a physical world. Backed by the methodology of science, man is setting about his prime task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...subject that is loaded with dynamite: and pregnant with possibilities for the disintegration of character. It exposes the combustibles at the springs of life. When a man witnesses the transformation of a human being from a state of poised serenity to one of maniacal possession: and stands face to face with the inexpressible fury of concentrated spiritual rage, it is inexpressibly brought home to him that the potentialities for destructive power within the human mind are immeasurable and as appalling as a cosmic cataclysm. But when one feels all these things and is conscious of them, it simply leads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...participant, and then giving him three or four brands of popular cigarettes to smoke in succession, among which is an Old Gold. The object of the test is to see if the contestant can pick this one out of the rest. If he does, he wins, and his face appears on the back covers of magazines. If he doesn't he is put out of the trials and disqualified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIGARETTE BLINDFOLD TESTS REACH CLOISTERED PRECINCTS | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

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