Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These apocalyptic questions boiled down to one-what would Italy get if she backed up her peace proposal with a threat to go in with Germany and Russia? That a peace proposal was imminent few doubted. That Britain and France would accept it few believed. Britons, believing that its main purpose was to make Britain appear to be guilty of continuing the war, accepted its challenge beforehand. Said Winston Churchill, in a speech on war aims that observers believed made him a real candidate for Prime Minister...
Although the contest was called off the tea went over with a bang as 250 Harvard and Radcliffe students jammed into the main reception room of P.B.H. and bent elbows over the ten tables...
...years of the nineteenth century, Harvard students were the blood let victims of Cambridge merchants. These gentlemen, because of the poor transportation facilities, had a virtual monopoly over the student' purchasing power. And thus Charles H. Kip '83 was moved to organize the Harvard Cooperative Society. Mr. Kip's main purpose in founding the Society was to make living cheaper for the students, what at that time were unduly burdened with the exorbitant prices charged by local establishments...
...Administration was correct in the methods it used in applying a new policy of Faculty tenure, and it was further inquired if that policy itself was right. The application occurred so suddenly, during the examination period last June, that few students realized that ten assistant professors, bearers of the main load of undergraduate teaching, had been lopped off. President Conant explained at the time that he was putting into effect the recommendations for increased security of the Faculty committee on tenure, but his critics pointed out that the committee foresaw no such immediate action as was taken. Criticism...
Colonel James W. Bagley, lecturer on Aerophotography, announced yesterday that two main changes have taken place at the Institute of Geographical Exploration as the new semester commences: William K. Coburn, Jr. has replaced Thomas C. McCaleb as instructor in Engineering, and there has been a considerable increase in the number of army officers taking graduate courses...