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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legal Aid Society, run by law students, gives advice on legal matters free of charge. If a case is carried to court, the bureau demands merely that its expenses in conducting the case be paid. All types of cases have been handled, except bankruptcy and admiralty. Cases of contracts, bills, and between landlord and tenant comprise most of the suits. Advice has been sought even on divorce, and once on international affairs...
Washington and Jefferson College recently encountered a difficulty from which Harvard has thus far been blessedly free. Among the candidates for next year's football team were three men of exceptional scholastic ability. That in itself was not unusual. But the three men had too great ability, and they are now unavoidably going to receive their degrees this spring, having completed their college requirements in three years...
...made the least of the Government's departments into one of the three greatest, at the same time doing much of the headwork for the rest of the Cabinet during two administrations. His popularity tends to transcend partisan politics, from which he has been, until recently, free. Unless the widespread sentiment for him proves academic, he is signally a "people's choice." Business, as distinct from Finance, is on his side because it trusts him as a student of material wellbeing. Labor likes him because he is fair, thorough, gives clear orders. Women trust him because...
...most conspicuous band in the cosmic ray spectrum. It was within a few per cent .305. Things equal to the same thing being equal to each other, it seems that positive and negative electrons are daily uniting in the heavens to form helium and sending us a free cosmic ray as an announcement...
...skull of a smilodon, the largest of the saber-tooth tigers, will within a very few days be mounted for exhibition as a free-standing skeleton in the fossil mammal room of the University Museum. It was given to Harvard in exchange by W. D. Matthew, professor of Paleontology at the University of California...