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...rumor has become current that there will be an attempt made in the near future to establish a branch of Yale at the Hotel Biltmore in New York. The "Yale News", for obvious purposes of subterfuge, has attributed the origin of this idea to a "very angry alumnus", so angry in fact that all attempts to discover his identity have proved a failure. Of course there may have been alumni, probably are, who, in a spirit of bitter irony made some such remark. But to put too much stock in the statement of any one individual, particularly such a mysterious...
...severe earthquake, lasting for over three hours, and of an origin estimated at 10,350 miles from Cambridge, was recorded yesterday morning at 1.54 o'clock at the Harvard Seismograph Station. The quake occurred about 20 minutes before the first waves reached Cambridge, having come from a location which is a little over 200 miles short of half way round the globe from here. The quake was of a kind that makes definite computations difficult to obtain...
Anent the origin of the term "racket," I quote verbatim from Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London, 1823), a definition which antedates the origin described by you (TIME...
Almost equally important as the changes called forth by the move to the Yard is the phase of the report suggesting improvements in the general administration of the Freshman year. These proposals appear more evolutionary than revolutionary. Their origin can be traced in the general development of the tutorial system at Harvard. A consideration of this section of Dean Hanford's discussion of Freshman affairs can best be made by examining each proposal on its own merits...
This proves the close chemical and physiological resemblance between human red blood cells and plant chlorophyll cells, is an evidence of common origin. When listening scientists wondered that evolutionary data should come from a Roman Catholic institution, Dr. Raber explained: "We are allowed to teach evolution in Catholic schools so long as we do not teach evolution of the soul...