Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From mastodon to mice has been the tale of Boylston Hall's degradation. Built in the ivy-covered year 1857, it housed the chemical laboratories, the anatomical museum, and something called the New Jersey Mastodon. This latter exhibit proved a bad start, for the bones had been put together inexpertly and became a laughing stock in mastodonic circles. Reassembled, it has long since migrated to another part of the University, and the anatomical museum has gone in town to the Medical School...
...months. The first one, conducted for twelve weeks during Summer Session, yielded some interesting results which Taylor hopes to expand in the present course. It showed, first of all, that Harvard students' ability to learn the code far exceeds the average expected by the Army and Navy. The latter puts forth 130 hours of practice as the amount of time required to reach a receiving speed of 13 words a minute; over half of the Summer Class reached that speed in less than 45 hours of practice...
...affair, had made stupid promises to Louis and Conn. Example: The sportswriters were told that a representative of the War Department had promised Louis that his debts would be cleaned up if he fought, and even that his back income tax of $117,000 would be paid up-the latter a manifest impossibility, since he must pay heavy Treasury taxes on any new lump sums he now earned. Not many tears fell. Millions, had wanted to know whether the young Irish sharpshooter could cut down the great Bomber. Only a few of the more emotional sportswriters bled much in print...
Yesterday's session consisted of a long, light drill against Penn running plays, in addition to kicking under pressure. Don Richards, Wally Flynn and Jack Come-ford looked potent in the latter department
Staff Sergeant Kenneth J. White, Sergeant Major of the Harvard ROTC from August, 1938 to September 17, 1942, was promoted on the latter date to a second lieutenancy. He is now at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in service with an MP battalion. Sergeant J. W. Parry has replaced him as chief clerk of military affairs here...