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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they sped, peering over the horizon for some distant rising film that would mean land. They reached what their instruments told them was the approximate point reached by Captain Robert E. Bartlett in the ice-ship Karluk in 1913; flew another hour, whizzing 70 miles into a frozen desert never before penetrated by man. When they circled back they had seen no land, but from their lofty lookout they had explored by eye a swath of the unknown perhaps 60 miles wide and 100 long ? 6,000 square miles of "new world." Returning, they had flown far inland before...
...entering the Department of History the student has the benefit of working in the division which has done most to perfect the tutorial system the general examination, and all the new paraphernalia of education that go therewith. This is no mean consideration. One may study at Harvard and study at Harvard. It makes a vast difference exactly where. The Department of History is a good place...
...divided into metaphysics, ethics and logics. Metaphysics is devoted to an examination of the essential nature of reality. It has a history extending far back into Greece, and farther into ancient India, where people first began to wonder what the panorama of Nature with all its manifestations might mean, and what might be man's place in the cosmical scheme. The problem of orienting oneself in regard to the totality of Nature is an important one. Metaphysics by itself is dealt with by Prof. Hocking in Philosophy 9. Ethics is the philosophy of living. It is devoted to the problem...
...dearie I can hardly wait to see you to tell you but I don't suppose I'll ever be doing that again--I mean seeing you--what with you and the hub settled down to things and a kid to listen to when the anteny is silent which is not much around this place what with bro. taking out the inside of the local Music and Noise Inc., twenty-seven fifty and to be paid for when you're caught, and so forth. But as I stood up to remark when you let fall the receiver etc. your once...
...testimony alleged further molestation of nuns by marauders, whom they "fought off. ... I do not mean that we did it physically. We did it with the tongue. . . and the tongue was effective in the instance I am speaking...