Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over 500,000. Some of the new arrivals came to snatch the technical training which would enable them to get good jobs as quickly as possible; others to make those contacts which are believed to be profitable in certain forms of business; others to postpone for four years the period of going to work; others to take part in the hurly-burly of athletics, fraternities, and other undergraduate activities which constitute college life; others, without any motive save that everybody else was doing...
...class of 1932 will have the opportunity to compete for the News, Photographic, and Business departments in the most interesting competition of the year. The only remaining chance for men in this class to make these boards is a competition which takes them through the Mid-Year Examination period...
...morning's CRIMSON. These show that of those men who had already had their connections with the University severed due to poor academic standing and were readmitted to the class of 1932 nearly one half finished last year with such unsatisfactory grades as to necessitate either expulsion or a period of probation. Not since 1921 has there been such a bad showing made by readmitted Freshmen. From these facts one can hardly question the wisdom of the Administrative Board in making more stringent readmission regulations, for in fact there was no other course open to them...
...class football schedule will be divided this year into two parts. The period between September 23 and October 11 will be devoted to informal games with Belmont Hill School, Cambridge Latin, Browne and Nichols, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wellesley High, Watertown High, and Somerville High Schools. From October 11 to November 8, the time is devoted strictly to the inter-class series, the winner of which will meet the winning Yale class team at New Haven on Friday, November 8. The first part of the schedule is not yet completed...
...chapter by Albert Einstein occurs the following sentence: "The measurement of time is effected by means of clocks." Definition: "A clock is a thing which automatically passes in succession through a (practically) equal series of events (period)." Dr. Einstein advises readers to scan Sir James Jeans' article on Relativity before reading his own seven columns on Space-Time...