Word: noted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butler's biography-a first-class work that was given the James Tait Black prize for the best biography of its year. He also wrote two valuable books on Sicily. Butler took issue with Darwin on no trivial point of evolutionary dogma. He was the first to note that the Abbé Lamarck had long before defined the principle of evolution, and without resorting to a theory of natural selection-the weakest element of Darwin's case...
...reading an account, of the Municipal University of Louisville's centennial celebration [TIME, April 5], I note with disappointment that you fail to mention the Municipal University of Wichita, Kansas, as one of the nine municipally owned universities in the U. S., although the other eight are named...
...edge vibrates, sets the whole column of air in the flute vibrating. Flute tones are made by this vibrating air column, just as violin tones are made by a vibrating string. Their pitch, similarly, depends upon the length of the air column. If a flautist wants a high note, he shortens his air column by opening one of the flute holes nearest the mouthpiece...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
...growth of the sport at Harvard since the advent of the new Indoor Athletic Building has been markedly similar. Under the able coaching of Mr. Ulen the number of men competing for positions on the team has swollen to over a hundred, and it is significant to note that none of the great swimmers now on the team had proved themselves "great" before they came to Harvard. Student and graduate interest in the sport have also shown strength, culminating in the demonstration of approval that shook the rafters of the pool on the occasion of the recent triumph over Yale...