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...nearer I get to Jan. i the more courageous I feel. I suppose I must get it from my own forbears who have set me examples in lion-hearted courage...
...Nearer & nearer crept the moon to crescent. Ramadan was almost upon Turkey when officials of the Department of Culture (which includes religion) screwed up their courage and told Dictator Kemal that he simply could not change the name of Turkey's god-at least not last week. Already several muezzins had been thrown into jail for announcing that they would continue to shout "Allah Akbar!" The populace was getting ugly, obviously sympathized with the Allah-shouters...
...Stebbins' observations bring some objects, like globular clusters, four times nearer the earth than previous estimates have put them. He found relatively little absorption of the light of stars distant from the Milky Way, believes that estimated distances of these need be revised no more than...
...reading period looms nearer, the question of the inconvenience caused by the closing of Widener Library in the evening will again come to the fore, with the increased demand on the part of undergraduate students for a restricted number of books. Renewed agitation for the opening of the Library will undoubtedly occur as soon as an appreciable number of students begin to find themselves seriously inconvenienced in the stampede to do the required reading period work...
...more numerous. In addition to weeding out, the depression has caused students in general to adopt a more serious attitude in their college career. On the whole, the financial crisis has toughened and refined the student of today. The colleges indisputably have suffered, but they have come nearer to profiting from their trouble than the rest of the country...