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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everybody except O'Connell, B. Ticknor and Gildea was out yesterday. The later two are expected back today while Dr. Richards has intimated that O'Connell will be in shape by Saturday. The former Exeter captain was still on crutches yesterday, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORWEEN SHIFTS BACKS FREELY IN LONG SIGNAL DRILL | 10/30/1929 | See Source »

McGill may fear intellectual snobbery. Cornell needs first to acquire a significant intellectual curiosity on the part of its undergraduate body; concern over snobbery may follow later. Cornell Daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "... Knowledge and Learning" | 10/30/1929 | See Source »

...seven acres which form the present Garden were laid out in 1807 by Professor William Daudrige Peck, with the formal lines of smaller Loudon establishments being used as a model. After the death of Professor Peck the Garden passed under the charge of Thomas Nuttall as Curator, and later of Thaddeus William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income to a full professorship. About 1842 the income of a newly established professorship, endowed by Joshua Fisher 1766, became available, and to this new chair Dr. Asa Gray was invited. The most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOTANIC GARDENS UNDERGO CHANGES | 10/29/1929 | See Source »

...answering the lipstick charge, Dr. Barbour told a story which ended: "I'm the chap who has to eat it." The other charge he admitted, saying: "Scholars should be in the saddle at college. . . . By the grace of God I will give you all I have. . . ." Two days later, down a precipitous, cobblestoned little street in Providence, moved a stately stream of men and women, capped, gowned, uniformed. They had to dig in their heels, so as to proceed with the gravity the occasion demanded, and tortuously descended from Brown's campus to the First Baptist Meeting House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brown Men | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...down like a forgotten phonograph. Accompanist Frank La Forge tried to save the situation with a skillfully improvised finale. Emma herself might have followed the accepted procedure for erring singers: hold a pose and hope for the best. Instead she grimaced, vanished through the curtains. A few seconds later she popped her head out again and emitted a high, piercing, utterly irrelevant note. Amazed, the audience applauded this unique effort as if it had been a complete and flawless song. Critics were kind, blamed only young Emma's sponsors for permitting such a premature appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Emmas | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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