Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anthropology? Here, in a paper of 77 pages, is set forth the physical measurements of 100 or more young ladies of Smith College. I don't suppose that so heavy a journal finds its way to your editorial table. I don't feel competent to write a paragraph for TIME, but if you will permit me I shall be very glad indeed to mail you the journal, and one of your editors might handle this interesting subject. It is intimated that later the girls of Vassar, Wellesley, etc., are to be measured. It seems the cephalic index (head...
...submitted to show just how serious the affair really is. But these afore-mentioned hour examinations. The Vagabond has to admit. Prevented the gathering of the much needed information. So the best that The Vagabond can give the world at present writing is the political note in the preceding paragraph...
...Hamblin has a letter from Roger Wolcott '99, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Overseers, written during May, at the time when the Visiting Committees to the Botanic Garden, the Botanical Museum, and the Department of Botany were consolidated into one group. The second paragraph of this communication, which is reproduced in full below, indicates that no changes in the conduct of the Garden were planned at the time it was written...
...position ? that "speaking generally" its power companies were believed to be abstaining from intervening in the question of public ownership -won the approval of Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer of Manhattan; Mr. Untermeyer, famed orchid-wearing epicure, son of a "Virginia planter who served in the Confederate Army" (his paragraph in Who's Who) is not a man ordinarily to be found aligned with the House of Morgan and the power companies. Now 71, he has been an active lawyer for more than 50 years, possessor of a large fortune (one copper consolidation which he effected brought $775,000 in lawyer...
...compels every undergraduate to be within his college precincts by midnight, that allows him only one week-end leave each term, is repugnant to our independence. But if the accidents and casualties continue to increase we may have to accept it. Both of the prohibitions cited in the first paragraph were occasioned by specific disasters. We cannot afford to grant intellectual privileges to machines that hurt. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...