Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rooms where magazines are provided for the entertainment of the residents. The failure of the Freshman Halls to bring any variation in the monotonous round of dormitory existence other than a spiritless smoker once during the year should have taught the University the futility of continuing in the old path. Common rooms will never break down social barriers at Harvard: they can, however, furnish in the Houses a place for informal musical entertainment, group meetings, and similar functions which could not and did not exist under the dormitory plan. This was a plan which defied all efforts to secure continuity...
...Last week he asked them to time the flight of each shooting light, watch carefully to see where the meteors originated. Since some of Dr. Olivier's amateur helpers have reported a shower this year, astronomers know that the meteorites have not been pulled out of their usual path by another planet as they were in 1899. In this case, the next two years should have brilliant display...
...open for them are so wide that they mush arbitrarily narrow their efforts and interests. Aid and advice on such orientation are offered by the University Consultant on careers, and many men who do not quite know their own minds can find here certain helpful suggestions as to the path they should follow...
There are various opinions as to the significance and importance of a college education, but from a position within the university it is a natural reaction to point with pride at the more renowned alumni and assert that the path to fame and fortune leads through academic portals. Obviously enough the feats of notorious scoundrels who happen to hold a college degree, or the life histories of those whose affairs are not successful after graduation seldom receive such eulogies in the editorial columns...
...next is one of their gala 33-year anniversaries. In 1899, stargazers were disappointed, complained that the Leonid performance was not worth sitting up all night for. Astronomers decided that the meteors had approached too near Jupiter, had missed the earth by being attracted out of their customary elliptical path around...