Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest to those who are concerned with the task of giving the foreign students of the University a pleasant introduction to Harvard life. In the two years of its existence the Council has striven to offer those men opportunities for a social intercourse which they might otherwise find difficult to get in their new environment. In this capacity it has done much to break down the feeling of isolation and strangeness with which the foreign student is confronted...
...true that very little can be known definitely about what Commander Byrd may expect to find at the South Pole", said Professor D. W. Whittlesey in answer to questions put to him by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...However, there are some general fields in which we may find that Byrd has made great advances. For instance, we know almost nothing of the climatic conditions in Antarctica, since previous expeditions have remained there for only short periods. Another field in which we are in almost complete ignorance is the nature of the surface features of the continent...
...continued, "Byrd has a large staff of scientists with him, and we may find them returning with a great deal of information concerning the land. And then they may discover a great deal concerning our own continent, which was completely covered by ice approximately 2000 years ago. The ice formation in the Antarctic is as old as the one which previously covered America, and by examination it may reveal much...
...uncommon to apply at the delivery desk for a dozen books and find ten of them reported missing or otherwise withdrawn. Undergraduates have been known not to return books at all, and, refusing to replace the book, have enjoyed their library privilege unimpaired. The answer, "I don't understand why the book is missing from the stacks; I put it on the delivery desk a week ago," has cleared more than one guilty undergraduate, and freed him from further embarrassment...