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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They are certainly not of universal pleasure to either student or professor in fact, they are often snubbed by both. In the pupils' parlance, "they don't mean anything anyway", and it is not unusual to hear an instructor announce with studied weariness that "the rules and regulation of the University require me to set an hour examination". Such is the enthusiasm with which these March-ian April hours are commonly greeted...
...glad they got in uh crack uhbout thet christmus tree on th' corner uv Tremont an' Boylstun Streets, better known ez James F Mahoney Square. Ef any uv these Harvard undergraduates understand whut th' thing is all uhbout--I mean th' Xmas tree signul--then there educatiun aint in vain...
...throughout the world are constantly searching for the remaining unknown elements, no other elemental discovery has been made since Hafnium, No. 72, in 1923, at Copenhagen, by Chemists Coster and Hevesy. And never before has a new element been first discovered in a U. S. laboratory. It may well mean for Dr. Hopkins, they said, the $40,000 Nobel chemistry prize in 1926, an honor won by no other U. S. chemist save Professor Theodore Richards in 1914 for work on atomic weights...
...than they do now. The most important of these inventions is the sliding oar lock which is supposed to give an absolutely straight pull through. The idea is undoubtedly sound, but it is not likely to be widely adopted. The other inventions in the pneumatic seats and moving footrests mean little...
...sybyl was a seeress of no mean ability. Somewhat absent minded and a trifle vaporish, she nevertheless, had legions at her call--and enjoyed greater power than any modern mystic has dared profess. And now that her records are to be made public--now that the famous leaves are to be gathered by the grammarians and what note of Italy, one wonders how well this early priestess of the occult did her duty by her trade...