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Engineering Sciences as a field of concentration are discussed in the following article written especially for the Crimson by Dean Hector James Hughes '94 of the Engineering School. This article is the fifth of a series which the Crimson is publishing to supplement a pamphlet on she choice of a field of concentration which was published in 1922. Dean Hughes in this article discusses particularly the courses which a student in the College who intends to take up engineering after graduation should take...
Slightly more pleasant than Mr. Tasker, though not really so different psychologically, was his vicar, the Rev. Hector Turnbull. Days at the vicarage, all identical, were punctuated by the Rev. Hector's heavy and regular meals, heavy and regular tread, heavy and regular sermons, tooth troubles and grumblings over money. Occasionally, the Rev. Hector noticed the second maid's ankle. Occasionally, he went away to a dentist. That ankles and teeth were connected in the life of a churchman with so proud a bearing as the Rev. Hector's, none would have guessed; and when the Rev. Hector fell heavily...
Henry Turnbull, the Rev. Hector's youngest, was thin, docile, an idiot to his family and the village. He ran errands, dug in the garden and walked, when not in demand, to South Egdon, for respite from mankind's puzzling beastliness. This he found in his only friend, Henry Neville, the South Egdon curate, a sickly ascetic who was hated by his flock because he did not bully them into religion as a proper curate should. Instead he forgave them their malice, an effrontery that he aggravated when he robbed them of the pleasure of stoning him to death...
...show down of the facts and in a readjustment of ourselves to them. The semitic bogie has had its innings. The picture of the college swallowed, hide, hair and hoofs, by the graduate structure of the university has been flashed before us. The club system has been given Hector's ride around the walls. They're still there and they'll probable remain there for aught our diagnosing and I don't know as I know why they shouldn't. If there's one thing that can and will change them it's the same evolution of things that...
...Lady who proved so helpful to her rather lonely husband. Houston Richards and Louis Leon Hall handled the finances of England well enough to get some distinction in the final court scene along with a host of minor characters who constituted almost the entire personel of the company. Even Hector, himself, helped in the closing scene to insure our "getting" Disraeli...