Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generous cooperation of Professor Salvemini has placed at the disposal of the History department a potent instrument for the further liberation of College courses from the somewhat solitary confinement characteristic in the past. His intimate personal contact with the actualities of his field fits him peculiarly for his part in the present effort towards a pedagogical method which transcends the restrictions of an artificial unity...
...relations between Harvard and Pennsylvania in hockey, the two teams not having met for a number of years. Pennsylvania was formerly a regular opponent on the Crimson schedule, but inadequate facilities for holding practice sessions and games forced the Red and Blue to discontinue the ice sport for the past few years. With the erection of a modern arena in Philadelphia, however, the sport has once again been taken up, and this year the Pennsylvania sextet has scheduled games with many of the leading colleges...
...some time past, the bouquets hurled in the direction of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Manhattan) have been of the variety vulgarly known as Irish. Harsh words have been spoken, epithets employed. Among the multifarious ail ments reported has been the predominance of academic works, the paucity of moderns...
...objects in the collection except Persian potteries which were given to her son, Horace Have meyer. It was stipulated that the collection be kept otherwise intact, dedicated to the memory of her late husband. The gift was a final gesture, concluding a series of anonymous flourishes. Frequently in the past Mrs. Havemeyer gave or loaned pieces from her collections, always, how ever, with the stipulation that her name be not mentioned...
...Where past salvagers failed to raise Caligula's barge, Premier Mussolini's scientific henchmen were last week succeeding by an inverse procedure. Four great electric pumps, which they had set up at Lake Nemi's edge, were lowering the water level. By April 21, the 2,280th anniversary of Rome's legendary founding, they must, according to their instructions, uncover the vessel. Last week only a few feet of water remained above it. It is probable that the pumpers will make their schedule and the curious may gloat at the water-logged site of Caligula's orgies...