Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average Freshman who attended the meeting of undergraduate extra-curricular activities last night at Phillips Brooks House came away with anything less than a feeling of bewilderment, it is a matter of wonder. For after listening to the various exhortations to the brethren from personages ranging from the president of the Student Council right down the line to the head of the Lampoon, any Yardling might have thought that his life in college would be doomed to failure if he did not go out for at least half a dozen activities, and that at the earliest opportunity, say next Wednesday...
...known cases (testified by medical observation) of life during 'several hours of the infants, whose lungs on post-mortem examination were found to be absolutely unstraightened." Special significance of this: if an X-ray of a newborn infant shows air in the stomach or bowels, then no matter if the lungs lack air, that infant was born alive...
...lead an underprivileged life. Mornings he writes (can turn out in his illegible longhand a smooth, 1,200-word column in two hours). Afternoons he rides, fishes, plays golf (fairly), tennis (better), or referees a polo game for his Long Island friends (see cut, p. 45). In the private matter of personal friends, he is more apt to be on intimate terms with Morgan partners than with union leaders. He is himself a member of a union, the American Newspaper Guild, but has paid no dues since it voted to join...
...present, indications are that the matter will be taken up in the first meeting of the Faculty Council which will take place shortly. Until then Demos will remain Acting House Master and will reside in the House Master's home. There has been no opportunity to consider the case due to the absence of members of the council from Cambridge during the summer vacation...
Dean Landis announced that Harvard could not allow itself to sit back on its heels in the matter of graduate school study. "Although we offer the widest range of graduate work of any law school, we must make an effort to build it up still further." He claimed that the importance of graduate law work is not in getting degrees but in making contributions to legal knowledge...