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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats were filled, and the Yardlings filled the aisles, main doorway, and main stairway. Some particularly enthusiastic members of the class engaged in dart throwing from the front, while others crowded up the back stairway and attacked the speakers from the rear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 700 OF FRESHMEN HEAR 17 SPEAKERS IN BROOKS HOUSE | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...main right of way had crews of men working on it day and night, "To enlarge it for heavier traffic," they told us. All around one could see uniforms of every description, perhaps to guard Admiral Horthy's special train back to Hungary, but certainly it seemed to need a great deal of guarding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juniors Find Czechs Prepared To Resist Invasion by Nazis | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...country, usually being confined to the great timber stands of the West coast, he said. They will be of the type known as "crown fires" where the flames shoot to a height of 500 feet, creating a mighty draught which throws burning brands half a mile ahead of the main blaze and makes it absolutely uncontrollable...

Author: By Blair Clark, | Title: New Disaster of Fire, Coming From Fallen Wood, Predicted | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...information of new students Widener Library, home of the main collection, was built in 1915, having been given by his mother in memory of Harry Elkins Widener '07, who was drowned in the "Titanic" disaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Library, Third Largest in United States, Opens Its Unlimited Resources to University's Newest Students | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...Farnsworth Room, dedicated to pleasing but not immediately purposeful reading, and where no studying is allowed, has been relighted during the summer. New cork flooring has been installed in the main Reading Room and today the last insect bookworms are being cleaned away by vacuum cleaners to make way for the flesh-and-blood ones, the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Library, Third Largest in United States, Opens Its Unlimited Resources to University's Newest Students | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

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