Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year, about this time, learned astronomers were hitching vest-pocket Kodaks to rockets, hoping thereby to obtain better pictures of the planet Mars. This season, the process is being reversed. Professor Todd of Amirerst has conceived the notion of going down thirteen hundred feet in a mine, from which point of vantage he expects to get a peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion...
Such is Dean Laycock's proposition; but what does it really amount to? It does not apply to college rooms, to regulations regarding college studies, and only partially to cuts. One is tempted to wonder, too, if a student can obtain all the desires of his heart merely by insisting that they are reasonable. At any rate, it seems that "abolutely free men" is a little too broad a phrase...
...when an appeal is addressed to our purses, it may be considered to be of importance. The annual drive of the Phillips Brooks for funds is correctly placed among these few appeals for our contributions. From the old men the collectors should have to make no great effort to obtain a contribution, but possibly some of the new men may be ignorant of what the Phillips Brooks House stands...
...order to obtain books the borrower should look up in the Card Catalogue the book which he wants, to ascertain the call-number of shelf mark. He should then make out a slip for each book wanted; a buff colored slip if the book is for outside use, or a blue slip if it is for use in the Reading Room...
Every student in the College must hand in, without fail, his list of studies, written in ink on the card provided for the purpose, today between the hours of nine o'clock and six o'clock at Harvard 1. All undergraduates must obtain the signatures of their advisors...