Word: one
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goal of the Library is still a long way off, especially in its lack of adequate foreign material. According to one member of the staff, the Baker Library may be said to have passed adolescence and is approaching maturity, but still has a serious task ahead if it is to live up to its present splendid promise...
Chemistry has become a broad field. On the one side physics and mathematics, on the other biology and physiology are embraced in the many ramifications of the science. It is important above all in a field where laboratory work occupies so great a proportion of attention, not to neglect the theoretic investigation of the allied sciences, lest concentrators in the Division become mere followers of cook book directions over a Bunsen burner...
...editorial candidate reports every night in the week except Saturday with one editorial on a Harvard topic or concerning some interesting aspect of the day's general news. He develops his own initiative in digging up subjects to write upon. His powers of judgment and analysis are given opportunity to show themselves in working up an intelligent, fresh comment. Little else can polish up his technical skill and his ability to write what he thinks as can the daily practice of writing a three hundred word editorial. Last but not least, the candidate has the benefit of a careful...
...stone was one that fell 60 years ago in Central Poland, after travelling, it is estimated, for indefinitely more than ten thousand million years at a hyperbolic speed across interstellar space. This rate was about 35 miles a second; it and the hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric...
...college Thanksgiving seems to mean little more than a chance to make up work or sleep. It is the last break before Christmas vacation and the reading period, a sort of preliminary breathing time. Every one is thankful for the relief it offers as a vacation, but thought on the matter goes little farther. But even if the feeling on these festivities is purely negative, there is no actual foundation for the pessimistic belief that Thanksgiving is becoming obscured by modern life. It is not a matter of more or less, but difference in expression...