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...where is there a Boston Nugget, where will you find, brisk, boisterous, debonair academicians clad in comfortable corduroys and sweaters? Where will you get our hill-winds and our mountain air, our Appalachian snows, and Alpine sports? With all due gratitude for hospitality received, we choose Hanover. The beer is better for one thing. And the Brahmins of Boston don't get in your hair. The Dartmouth...
...least the possibility that friendships arising out of such contacts would do much towards preventing individuals from being or becoming maladjusted, and even more towards converting the grind, the weir, the book-worm, and the recluse into normal social animals, with an interest in current events, the Nugget, Smith sub-suffragettes, and the Harvard game in addition to their intellectual concerns...
...Dutchman" mine in Superstition Mountain had been found again after 20 years. Several weeks ago more than 500 men, many jobless, were stampeded by a rumor of gold from Calgary to the bleak, cold Livingstone River Valley 100 miles away. Australia still teems with excitement over a 94-lb. nugget found two months ago. Gold-rich Africa is the scene of similar tension. And last week in San Ignacio, Mexico, one Guillermo Laveaga came out of the hills and caused a gold-rush by his tales of a place where gold is to be extracted from the rocks with hunting...
What the Yale News says concerning the old "Big Three" is true. Its application to Princeton is that, for one thing, inter-sectional games should have no place on the Tiger's schedule. The gold nugget in the H--Y--P President's Agreement of the early twenties was its ban on inter sectionalism: and the Princetonian of that day hailed the passing of cross-country rivalry "as a mark of progress." We lament its return as a mark of regress, and predict that in the far distant, but far saner future only natural rivals will do battle...
Professor John J. Abel of Johns Hopkins removed his spectacles and wiped them clean of imperceptible dust. Ecomiums can be embarrassing and he had just received a $195,000 nugget of them from President Francis Patrick Garvan of the Chemical Foundation. The money was of course not for Professor Abel himself. It was to finance research on the cause of the common cold. But in giving the sum to the School of Hygiene & Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Garvan had insisted that the fund be called "The John J. Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold...