Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first system for which renovation of some sort is desirable is the manner with which Faculty advisers guide freshmen at the outset of their undergraduate careers. I should say, rather, fall to guide. There seems to be an idea that the freshman year, with its full quota of prescribed courses, is rather a waste anyway and is not deserving of serious attention. The advisers, consequently, explain as briefly as possible the methods of distribution and concentration, fill up the freshman's cards with all the elementary courses it will hold, and dismiss the young man with the conviction...
...Porter '29 romped home second to Sam Martin, the ex-Dartmouth middle distance luminary and a member of the world's B. A. A. two-mile record-holding relay team. Martin ran the distance in the good time, considering the soft track resulting from the recent heavy fall of rain, of 1 minute 55 seconds...
Your "figures, figures" anent the worth of John D. Rockefeller's weight in gold fall flat before one who knows gold. Perhaps you retain some of the old prejudice against Standard Oil, and so rate him down to 16¼ carats or $14.00 per oz., which would bring his pounds to just about your figure of $204.09 each, but one is inclined to consider his vast benefactions and his late judgment of Col. Stewart, and give him the full 24 carat rating of 1000 fine...
...appointment of six members of the Sophomore class to serve as Student Council Budget Committee next fall was announced last night by James DeNormandie '29, chairman of the committee...
...recent opening of the "Fifty Books of the Year" exhibition given annually by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Harvard University Press had five books. The collection will remain in New York during the summer and be brought to Boston next fall...