Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wines or spirituous liquors will be permitted nor will smoking be allowed at the table in the dining rooms." Thus runs a section of the Parietal Rules of the mid-nineteenth century, which would make good reading for those who think present House rules are too strict...
...late nineteenth century, the number if books in Harvard's library was estimated to double every 20 years, and a cry was raised for a larger building to supplant overflowing Gore Hall. The total of books has quadrupled in the past 40 years, but the need now is for a smaller building--not so much to house the overflow, but to arrange the existing collection for the greater convenience of students...
...second class of eligible individuals consists of former members of the Army Air Corps Enlisted Reserve now on inactive duty. There may be some members of that Reserve now in College, Perkins continued in a memorandum to the SERVICE NEWS. Such Reservists, he said, must not reach their nineteenth birthday before November 1, and they must present a discharge from the Army before they can be enlisted in this program. If they are 18, they must be enlisted within 15 days after their discharge frm the Army...
...Nineteenth Class...
...Nineteenth class to start instruction in the unit since its founding in June, 1941, the new contingent complements almost 450 men who are already halfway through their training. The school, now under the command of Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, USN (retired), is distinct from the Midshipmen-Officers' Unit, which gives a year's training in similar fields...