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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...additions made to the Oriental Department of the Fogg Museum during the past year, and just recently put on exhibition, are especially significant, the directors have announced. Hitherto unobtainable objects have been acquired through the work of Harvard excavators or as gifts from friends...
...major argument favoring the hegira of the Freshman classes to the Yard as that it is, after all, the logical and practical place for the incoming men to live. A great deal has been said about the advantages of living in the Yard and the dubious contagion of its past and present associations. The intangible benefit derived would certainly be more profitable to the susceptible Freshman than to the blase Senior. With most of the upperclassmen separated from the College office proper by an intermediary House master, the Freshman class will be the almost important group directly under University Hall...
...Make room!" cried a dark, pudgy gentleman. "Make room!" And he tried to edge past the tall, lolling gentleman toward a seat in the middle...
...able to use science for the dissection and description of matter, but they cannot use it to tell men why to live or how to live. Freud and Watson are old-fashioned and their psychology is under the overwhelming influence of Newtonian physics. That is of the past and of the past their conclusions based upon it will also...
...successful president, Wall Street operators started a bear movement in Piggly Wiggly stock. Angry, Mr. Saunders hastened from his native Memphis to Manhattan. They would sell Piggly short, would they? Well, he'd show them, and he did. He ran Piggly Wiggly stock up from 40 past 120, realized some millions of paper profits. Then, unfortunately, the Stock Exchange Governors decided that a corner had been established in Piggly Wiggly and took the stock off the board. With trading suspended, there was no market, no quotation on Mr. Saunders' stock. Mr. Saunders discovered that Wall Street...