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...some fashion to revolve that is to say the meals. It is that, for nearly 300 years, the students of Harvard College have, in fact, had the curious custom of eating together in one fashion or another. With the otherwise wholly admirable shifting of the center of college life nearer the river that fashion has in recent years greatly altered, and many believe for the worse. Yet it is fair to remember that if we are to turn to another system, there was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even in the earlier years of the nineteenth century, a custom...
...examinations draw nearer, there comes the usual hectic period of feverish study in the small hours with the aid of large quantities of coffee and cigarettes, and despite ardent, resolutions to the contrary this situation seems to be practically unavoidable. Nor can it be said that the fault lies wholly in the weakness of the resolve...
...planetary mystery much nearer home is the problem of the irregularities of the rotation of the earth--a phenomenon discovered through studies of the motion of the moon. For some years we have been familiar with the fact that the earth's rotation is slowing down, that the day is lengthening, and that the moon is receeding; we have learned that after an interval of some fifty thousand million years the month and the day will be the same length again, as they were at the time the earth-moon system was formed. That equality of month...
Purdue's rampaging Boilermakers forward-passed a little nearer to the Big Ten Championship. Purdue 13, Wisconsin...
Arthur Cutten was reported in Atlantic City whither he is wont to go when he desires to be nearer to the corner of Wall and Broad Streets than his own Chicago. Whether or not he, "biggest bull," had been engaged in a month-long duel with Jesse Livermore, famed bear, was not a matter of public knowledge. No one could quite believe that Mr. Livermore was, in storybook fashion, tsar of a band of bears which had fanatically obeyed his orders for two months. But certain it seemed that a colossal effort to reduce the price of stocks...