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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the swell that was beginning to rise. Night was falling, so he switched on the compass light. He thought of the skipper lying in his bunk below, staring up at his compass. He certainly couldn't growl about the course this time. An even breeze was blowing the number one jib-topsail gracefully to leeward while the moon made diagonal shadows on the curved sails...
...text but I won't. I will only give you the text and I won't preach on it. I think I can afford to give you the text because it so happens -through no fault of my own-that I am descended from a number of people who came over on the Mayflower...
Like all men, coal miners expect to die some day. Unlike all men, coal miners also expect that an abnormally high proportion of their number will not die in bed.* Last week death came to 45 miners caught by an explosion of natural gas and rock dust in the Red Jacket Coal Co. mine near Grundy, in southwestern Virginia...
...past, poor guidance has caused a number of Yardlings to seek the tutoring schools for counsel as well as instruction, and these same turn out later as Plan B tutees. Others--enough to keep Dr. Bock and the P.B.H. personnel advisers on their toes--have developed mental difficulties which with careful and thorough guidance could have been controlled, if not avoided. By now every college should know that there is no uniformity among students; each is an individual who must be taught and handled differently. At some time during college most intelligent men pass through an emotional or intellectual conflict...
...practically certain that if a similar poll had been taken back in 1930, the number engaged in extra-curricular work would have been much smaller. The House system is to a large measure responsible for such a difference for it provides opportunities for those who do not want to take much time from their work. Less than a third of the total number admitted that the extra effort was detrimental to their marks...