Word: nils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasant hours in figuring out how he might listen to his nine o'clock lecture without the uncomfortable concomitant of getting out of bed. But with "directed", untapable wireless an actual fact, the educational importance of Big Bens and roommates notebooks is certain ere long to be reduced to nil. Lectures will soon be given by the Professor between his-grapefruit and his omelette, with perhaps a humorous aside while his wife is buttering the toast. As for class rooms, there will be no further need for them, and the dormitory shortage at Harvard will undoubtedly be met by turning...
...faces of our clocks during the last two weeks. Revolutions in the Rhineland, pogroms in Poland, and starvation in Syria may all have their effect on contemporary history and the H. C. of L.; but compared with the juggling of our timepieces their influence is nil...