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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Courses. The Harvard tradition has always been toward strengthening individual responsibility, toward relaxing and discarding those petty regulations which are always ineffective with lethargic students, and often unjust to others. The whole trend of policy is liberal; there nevertheless remain instances to the contrary to emphasize by contrast the main current...
...Reisner was loathe to believe that the scarred remnant of a sarcophagus which was found and left in the main mortuary chamber of the Great Pyramid had ever contained the body of a king. He was loathe also to discredit all the theories of Herodotus and so he set his assistants to work on the edge of the rock platform. The hundred native laborers were made to clean off thousands of tons of sand and debris which were thrown into the valley beneath. Then the trained archaeologists were put to a minute clearing of the naked rock...
...line extends southeasterly from Kansas City to Birmingham, Ala., where by arrangement with the Southern Railway it makes connection with the 147 miles of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham & Pensacola, of which the Frisco recently got control. This branch gives it tappage to the present Florida flood of shipments. The main line of the Rock Island runs from Chicago to Denver and Colorado Springs, with another line going from Chicago to Santa Rosa, N. M., where it joins the El Paso & Southwestern (a branch of the Southern Pacific). Other lines stretch from St. Louis to Kansas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis...
...frequently presented, that of a loyalist to the crown in revolutionary colonies. No reader will close the book, finally, without a truer mental picture of pioneer days in America. Crèvecoeur was not a historian; he was a chronicler of unrelated episodes. He was an observer whose main interest was not in ideas or causes but in people. His writings before the Revolution contain a picture of the life of the average American community in the middle colonies; his sketches during the conflict picture such communities convulsed...
...they came together, 67 groups, big and little, of Boston Tech men in their own home cities; and sat down to their dinners, heard the radios being tuned in, and pushed back their chairs, lit their cigars, waited for the big speech of the evening. The main dinner of the evening was being held in Manhattan, but it was an "All-Technology Phantom Radio Dinner" such as only technical men could imagine, devise and carry out. An interlocking chain of broadcasting stations brought them all together, from Massachusetts to California. The main speaker of the evening was not in Manhattan...