Word: noted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of hell. . . . Mr. King and I ... thought as long as we were going to crack up we might as well sit down like a couple of men-and take it. ... I realized what a man feels like when he sits down in the electric chair. ... I wrote a note to my wife. I felt we were going to crash and probably burn up. I figured that is what you do when you crash. You usually burn so I wrote this note . . . put it in my pocket hoping they would find it if it did not burn too. . . . I prayed...
This worried Patriot Lopez, and he decided then & there that something must be done to make the national anthem more singable. Crux of the problem was to reduce its twelve-note range to something more like the average popular tune's eight notes. Originally designed to show off lusty tenors and rumbling bassos,* the tune's high & low notes squeaked and croaked when essayed by snack-fed debutantes and their escorts' whiskey tenors...
Application blanks for 1938-39 scholarships for undergraduates may now be obtained at the Information Desk, 4 University Hall, and are due on or before March 15, Please note that this is two weeks earlier than in previous years. Present holders are expected to file now applications...
...month of January at Harvard is noted for its reading period leisure, its examination period frenzy, and the publication of the annual reports of the various officers and departments of the University. It is the contents of the latter category, the annual reports, which are causing comment these days, although there may be some persons a bit concerned about bluebooks, as yet. During the past week, however, both President Conant and Dean Hudunt, of the Graduate School of Design, saw fit to recapitulate their activities of the past year. They both had a lot to say on several subjects...
...note of warning, however, Dr. Russell pointed out that until preventive steps are taken the world over, every community is in danger of having disease brought into its midst by travellers and tourists, and can never afford to relax its vigilance...