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Speaking before the local chapter of Pi Lambda Theta, a women's educational sorority, the director of the Framingham State Reformatory for Women demanded smaller sentences for petty thefts and permission for the reformatory to put prisoners on parole...
Margaret Truman, the President's 21-year-old daughter, was voted the sweetheart of Lambda Chi Alpha at the University of Missouri...
...himself is a Delta Sigma Phi and Lambda Phi Epsilon and one saxophone player who finished school easily and received a degree. Of the original four Hal Kempians, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams are Tar Heel Delta Tau Deltas. Clayton Cash is an Illinois Delt; Ralph Hallenbeck, Princeton '35, is a Triangle Club man. Dorsey Forrest is a Northwestern Zeta Psi, Bruce Milligan is from Boston U, Phil Fent is a Cornhusker (Nebraska). Needless to say, all, including Hal, usually go bare-headed and garterless...
Synthesis. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is irked by such caution, says it reminds him of the clergyman who wrote his wife: "I shall be home (God willing) on Friday, and in any case by Saturday." By mathematical means Sir Arthur has arrived at a value for lambda, the cosmical constant of repulsion which scatters the universe, and his lambda value would have the nebulae receding at even greater speeds than the observed velocities. This work incidentally enabled him to compute the total number of protons and electrons in the universe: 10 79 (ten followed by 78 zeros...
...minutes later a wild-eyed truck-driver burst into the Lambda Chi kitchen. ''Where's the furnace?" he cried. A startled chef pointed to the cellar door. The truckman clattered down the steps, dived for the furnace, switched it off. Not until then did he draw breath to explain that by mistake he had filled the tank not with fuel oil but with gasoline. All that saved the Lambda Chi house from destruction were a few inches of oil left in the tank, which fed from the bottom. The gasoline was just about to drain into...