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Holy Cross was in third place, scoring 101 points. W. Brennan, star of the Purple team, placed second in the race, in the very good time of 23 min., 57 sec failure to gain a lower group score. The poorer showing of the rest of the team was responsible for Holy Cross...
Phillips Brooks House is able to use almost any person in Harvard College to help carry out its numerous duties. The committee sends members to social centers in the poorer sections of Boston and Cambridge, where these men do both paid and volunteer work in the homes in which the boys congregate. These youngsters are interested in forming clubs, getting organized, or, so it seems, doing anything at all; and if they are not kept busy, they are very liable to get into trouble on the streets. In social service homes, they can compete in games such as basketball...
Much as his students in the Architectural School will miss the leadership of Professor Pray, they are but the least to regret his loss. A whole profession is the poorer for his passing...
TIME is terse; it might do poorer, But it harbors a certain addiction: Quotations that swear and letters in poetry, Are items it uses without restraint...
...that radio reception is universally poor in summer and good in winter. Generally speaking, reception should be better in the winter months on account of the shortened days and decreased daylight. On the other hand, the sunspots and radio curves show that the increased solar activity actually gave much poorer reception in the winter months of both 1926 and 1927 than during the summers of the same years. With the recent decrease in spots on the sun, radio reception during the last two months of 1928 has shown considerable improvement. It may be mentioned that the high degree of static...