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...pious Jews for thousands of years, divorce has simply meant compliance with God's rule as laid down in His theocratic handbook, Deuteronomy (24:1): When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house. . . . Today, as in ancient times, a good Orthodox Jew or his agent obtains a religious divorce by handing his wife...
...encyclopedia" is expected to be of use to weather scientists in their predictions and in research on origins of various climatic phenomena. Prepared largely by Charles F. Brooks '11, director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, the survey has been published as part of a massive German handbook of climatology which upon completion will present the important weather facts of the whole world...
...Bolton '39, chairman of the Freshman Committee, announced the appointment of Bartow Kelly '40 as his successor to the chairmanship. Kelly will be in charge of this committee and Peter M. Pratt '40 will be his assistant. These two will have charge of the rewriting of the Brooks House handbook for incoming Freshmen...
This Freshman committee through the year runs an old clothes drive and holds a Christmas party before vacation. After mid-years they concentrate on the Handbook, and work on a final clothes drive at the end of the year, gathering old discarded clothes and books which can be used the next year. This group also does some social service work and tries to interest other members of their class in the settlement houses. It is interesting to note that through the time given by undergraduates to these houses over three thousand people in Greater Boston were influenced last year...
...Raymond Dennett '36, Graduate Secretary of Brooks House, was approved in a fall cabinet meeting. With the calendar, list of churches, map, and general information about financial aid, employment, University facilities, and other features remaining unchanged, it is expected that 40 more pages will be added to the Handbook, which, in its forty-seventh edition, was sent on September 1 to the 2200 new members of the University...