Word: gatherers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farms have ceased production. ... In a generation you will have 90% of your population in urban centres and only 10% on the land. That is a danger to life. After the fourth generation the energy of the country man is worn out in the city .... [and the unemployed] gather in dark slums and in one room ... so that life will fester into rottenness. . . . How is the city going to perpetuate itself . . .? Keep a larger population on the land. Rural industries must be interspersed with agriculture. There must be created what I call a rural society with an enlarged civic spirit...
...have been thought necessary in producing high speed sub-atomic projectiles. Protons (hydrogen atoms stripped of their electrons) are sent back and forth between two semicircular hollow plates by means of alternating currents of 10,000 volts and a magnetic field. As they continue in a spiral motion they gather speed, finally shoot out the end of the tube, minute bullets capable of battering the nucleus of any atom in their path, perhaps of changing it into atomic energy which scientists have long talked about. Cosmic Rays. Although some scientists have thought that the "cosmic rays" which bombard the earth...
...news competition candidates experience most of the excitement attendant to the process of gathering and printing news. The whole of Harvard is their field, and there is no better way of learning the ins and outs of a great university than by heeling for news for an undergraduate daily. Straight news is stressed, but human interest stories and interview also fall within the field of the news candidate. The first few days of the competition are devoted to a breaking-in process, and no undergraduate need remain out of the competition on the basis of lack of experience; editors will...
...news competition gives the candidate a chance to gather and write up news assignments, as well as to work on "scoops." This consists of finding news outside of the regular channels, such as human interest stories, or interviews. For the first few days of the competition, most of the candidate's time is spent learning form and style of writing, and covering assignments, which are written up under the guidance of editors...
...Freshman football candidates will gather at the new locker building for equipment at 1.30 o'clock Monday afternoon, and practice will commence at 2.30 o'clock, under the guidance of Coach A. E. French '29, who was captain and star halfback of the 1928 eleven which defeated Yale, 17 to 0. It will be French's second year directing the first year team...