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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governing Board is not satisfied with the present dual secretaryship and it would like to get one man who would be able to devote most of his time to the Union and thus take over both positions. In case such a man can be found the Board would create a new position with a suitable salary attached to it. In view of this fact all applications of older men will be carefully considered. All applications should be field with W. S. Stone 3L, at the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPLICANTS FOR UNION SECRETARYSHIP CALLED | 4/3/1929 | See Source »

...reviews of symphony concerts to run three columns ought at least to permit more than mere tabloid comment on matters of such obvious educational importance as the permanence of collegiate training. Departures from policy of this nature are all the more insidious since they fail to carry the warning found in less selective journals which usually run this sort of material under some such head as "thirty seconds a day with serious thinkers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL | 4/3/1929 | See Source »

...easy to conjecture how many unrecorded events took place on this restricted but fascinating area. In 1653 John Betts who lived on the Holyoke-Winthrop corner was tried for murdering his servant with a plough-staff. We can imagine the master's feelings when, although not found legally guilty, he was made to stand at the gallows for an hour with a rope about his neck, and then submit to a severe whipping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Historic Site Fast Becoming Wiped Out By Steam Shovels in Construction of New Gym | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

...sportsman named Joseph Cochrane ("Cock") Robin was found dead with an arrow through his heart. A man named Sperling (German for sparrow) was suspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cock Robin Killing | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...course, not as simple as that. Other murders followed. One John Sprigg was shot through the middle of his wig. A scholarly hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cock Robin Killing | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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