Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show what an unusually large field this is for any course, be it even a full year, to attempt to cover. And yet Fine Arts 1d sets out to give an adequate survey of the vast mass of material piled up over a period of some fifteen centuries in less than fifteen weeks...
...practice was more or less a resumption of regular workouts which had been going on outdoors all Fall. All the men who reported were members of the informal Fall squad. Practice will be held there throughout the Winter, the University squad drilling on Mondays and Wednesdays, and the Freshmen on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The University schedule includes two games with Army, two with Yale, the usual Cleveland-Cincinnati trip, and the regular Armory schedule of games in the Boston league. In addition the team will play in New York around the end of March or the beginning of April...
Harvard's peripatetic Harlow Shapley (TIME, Dec. 2) addressed the American Geographical Society in Manhattan last week. Usually he has his keen intelligence among the stars. For last week's occasion he directed it into the earth. He proposed, as has many another with less public attention, to establish scientific laboratories deep beneath the land surface. The deepest man-made hole in the world is in Orange County, Cal., 8,201 ft. deep. The deepest mine in the world is St. John del Rey in the stage of Minas Geraes, Brazil, about 7,200 ft. down, where toiling...
STRICTLY DISHONORABLE?Comical, less accessible than the speakeasy which it portrays...
HANNA-Thomas Beer-Knopf ($4). The Man. "Hanna's luck" was proverbial, but like so many easy explanations of success it will not bear scrutiny. Even in business he had his ups and downs; in politics no less. For five years he, a millionaire, tried to make a newspaper pay, and failed. But he was lucky in his name. That name, with its blended suggestions of some old Roman or Carthaginian proconsul, was no title for a mediocrity; Mark Hanna sounded best as either a bum or a conqueror. He was a conqueror. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, son of Leonard...