Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...examination was Marriot's "Revolution of 1848", a single copy of which was placed at the desk in the Reading Room a week before. Assuming a constant demand for the book, it could be used for roughly 300 hours during the three weeks notice given. With approximately 200 men in the course, and allowing two and a half hours for each man to study the 100 pages assigned reasonably well enough for adequate preparation, the one book would have to be in use for an aggregate of 500 hours...
...actual examination Monday was divided into three parts, ostensibly allowing one-third of an hour for each division. The second question required an essay on the July Monarchy, in other words, the history of France from 1830 to 1848, giving the men 20 minutes to write on a question covering one fourth of the time treated in the first half year...
...Gade '31, president, and H. deW. Wood '30, manager, will be in charge of the trip and R. A. Stout '29 will accompany the men as proctor...
Those Harvard lads who called the police when their bootlegger started suddenly to over-charge them are some how all wrong. Just when everyone begins to wonder if Harvard men aren't, after all, good guys, just after the Lampoon makes the scoop of years by filching the famous Yale fence, just when Princeton begins to feel a little sorry about it all, a few men destroy everything. Not that most of us haven't felt justified, from time to time, in having a bootlegger apprehended, but we somehow laugh...
Those bootleggers were indubitably Yale Men. --B. D. in the Columbia Spectator...