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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Withrow and T. A. Boyd of General Motors were able to tell the American Chemical Society at Indianapolis last week exactly why motors knock. Quality of gasoline is the cause. With good fuel a pencil of flame darts from the spark plug and ignites all the charge progressively. This occurs in 1/250 sec. With knocking gasoline, the instant the spark starts ignition, the first burned fuel creates sufficient heat and pressure to ignite all the remaining fuel in one sharp blast, before the spark flame can do its comparatively slow duty. Antiknock compounds obviate the blast, enable the fuel...
...often regretted by old-time Alumni that the thorough-going drill in English composition which was formerly administered at Harvard should have been forcibly replaced by other considerations of the modern curriculum. At all events the maltreatment of grammar and frequent misspellings which occur on college papers today would seem to justify a great deal of adverse criticism, which any lingering influence of English A can hardly overcome. The publication of theses, however, might well act as an agent toward improving the presentation of subjects by aspiring undergraduates. This is especially true of such fields as Science or Economics where...
...Easter Sunday, April 5, there will occur at the request of the donor, Mr. C.R. Crane, the first official ringing of the Lowell House bells, which have been heard off and on for the past few weeks. It is expected that some relative may represent Mr. Crane, who is at present abroad. The bells are to be rung all day, with slight intervals of respite...
...junior university and freshman races will also be rowed upstream, and over the last two miles of the course, which they have not heretofore done. These races will as usual occur in the morning, with the university race to take place late in the afternoon. Winds and tides are the reasons for this change in the arrangements of the regatta. Everything else will remain approximately the same...
Production will get under way next Tuesday evening at an open meeting to which all members of the University, particularly those contemplating coming out for this production, are invited. The meeting is to occur at 7.45 o'clock in the Peabody Room of the Phillips Brooks House. F. Cowles Strickland, director of the Copley Theater Players, Boston, will be the speaker of the evening. E. P. Goodnow '17, who directed the Dramatic Club's production of "Success" a year ago, has been secured to coach "B.J.One." He will outline the play for the benefit of those wishing...