Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope to collect specimens of plants and seeds for introduction in the experimental stations at Summit, Canal Zone, Tela, Honduras, and the Harvard Gardens in Cuba, and zoological specimens for the collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. They will return to the United States about the middle of May...
THIS latest addition to the present flood of travel books will do little to add to the popularity of the class. The author, whom the reader may remember as displaying narrative power to a high degree in "Beasts, Men and Gods" wanders rather confusedly through the French colonies in western tropical Africa and the result is less a description of the country he traversed than an airing of the author's theories on various subjects...
...variations in gravity, but large features such as heavier rock in cores of folds, dome-shaped masses of salt, or bleached cavernous ground can often be recognized by the anomalies caused by them in the gravitational field, and critical evidence bearing on the occurence of oil or ore bodies, may be secured for the use of the geologists...
...practice of housing a large portion of the Freshman class in boarding houses about town should by now have about run its course. There is the need also of more comfortable dining rooms for everyone which could be supplied by their installation in any dormitories that Yale may build in the future. The establishment of the House system at Yale in the form of small quadrangles will in this respect come into violent conflict with the present social system, for the Fraternities as they now stand are, if nothing else, eating clubs. In this matter, therefore, there would have...
Traditions are difficult to end. But the first step has been taken, and the inevitable funeral may well be held somewhere in Boston as inconspicuously as possible. It is only to be regretted that the Class of 1930 has apparently lost the distinction of emancipating itself entirely from this historical bugbear...