Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...topic of Professor Goldschmidt's discussion this afternoon will be. "The Period of Charlemagne and the New Forms of Architecture North of the Alps." All members of the University and the general public are invited...
...school year, with seasons just reversed from those in the northern hemisphere, starts in March, and runs through the winter until December. The vacation period in January and February is generally used by undergraduates for further study. Honors candidates who are expected to utilize the entire period for study, take their examinations at the end of the vacation in March...
...Sullivan, the authoress, was born in Nebraska. Among her acquaintances on the frontier were Buffalo Bill and Major Frank North, both of whom she called "uncle". Her family was of pioneer stock, always pushing on to the new border-land of civilization. At the period of which she writes, a fierce conflict was being waged between the cattle interests and the general commercial interests that were striving to make the West a settled country. Although only a girl at the time, Mrs. Sullivan recalls vividly these stirring events in which her own family was engulfed...
...surge of progress, the triumph of the new West over the lariat, is the motivating force of the presentation. Hard-riding, gun-toting cattlemen struggle in vain to protect their grazing lands from the invasion of foreign homesteaders. The action of the play occurs in Western Nebraska within a period of two weeks...
...surprising fact about the classes, Fradd says, is that while all the men groan under the heavy exercises devised to correct the hollow chests and sagging spinal columns, many of the men ask permission to continue longer than the required six week period. The results of the exercises apparently justify the effort, and some men have reported to Fradd of their own accord during the greater part of a year...