Word: occuring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five. Mr. Perkins will assist Assistant Dean E. A. Whitney '17 in the supervision of the Freshman class. Mr. Whitney, on being questioned as to the reason for this move, stated that it was made in order to train new blood to replace any vacancies which may occur in the future...
...things," he says, "are those we face daily. A subway ride, for instance, is much more vital than a crisis, a great transaction, and things like that, because people spend more time in the subway than they do in crises. To be interested in crises, which rarely or never occur, and to be bored in the subway seems idiocy to me. So a college which teaches you to be successful in the crisis but a failure at amusing yourself in the subway is wrong." This is both delightful and intelligent, but most of the embroidery of "Logic" is either pure...
...what is happening here at Harvard on January 24? According to the CRIMSON the examinations scheduled for that day have been postponed--one hour!--so that students will not be obliged to "watch the eclipse through the windows of the examination rooms." Did it not occur to the faculty that some of those who have examinations at this time might quite reasonably prefer to witness a total eclipse rather than the more common and less interesting phenomenon of a partial eclipse? Personally, I feel fortunate to be free, but I sympathize with those interested in the eclipse...
This argument is likely to be heard more and more between now and 1928. But who is this Mr. Leslie M. Shaw and how did the argument happen to occur...
...recent references in the CRIMSON to the 'unprecedented' fact that the College is to modify its appointments on account of the eclipse of the sun which is to occur on January 24, reminds me of an earlier eclipse 240 years ago when the College actually changed its Commencement Day in order to avoid an eclipse," says Mr. W. C. Lane '81, Librarian of the Widener Library, in an article for the CRIMSON relating an ancient precedent for the recent action of the University authorities...