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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students are soon to find out and as old students are very well aware the backbone of college education is books, in spite of what they may have been told about the educating influence of human relations and what are mysteriously referred to as "contracts." And this University has 3,479,267 of them, according to the census of 1933, scattered throughout the 76 units that compose the University Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Library, Third Largest in United States, Opens Its Unlimited Resources to University's Newest Students | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

Cambridge's own special police officer, Thomas H. Leary, who went on a vacation and returned to find himself unwillingly put up for the Democratic state convention, waged quite a campaign to defeat himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEARY, UNWILLING POLITICIAN, LOSES CAMPAIGN FOR DEFEAT | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...that I know one member of the Class of 1842 personally. Eleven of them lived into the present century, the last dying in 1911. So if the same average holds good, twenty percent of 1942 can hope to see New Year's Day 2001. Let's hope they will find that year a little more peaceful than this year of unemployment, war, and hurricanes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morison, Harvard Historian, Tells Story of College's First Class | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Last year in a small room on the first floor of the House Williams and Swett were able to assist some 300 students from every branch of the University to find an answer to personal questions. The entire gamut of possible problems was run, from a Freshman's doubts about taking up Chinese to a graduate student's hesitation about taking a wife. So far, it is claimed, no situation has stumped their resourcefulness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. PERSONNEL MEN TO HAVE LARGER QUARTERS THIS YEAR | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Filled with nitrogen, the torpedo-shaped capsule will, according to Grover Whalen, remain until our progeny's progeny dig it up. They are to find out about it by straying across one of many Books of Records of the capsule which will be mailed next week to libraries all over the globe. There has been no comment as yet from New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time Capsule, to be Buried 5000 Years at World's Fair, Contains Harvard-Yale Football Pictures | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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