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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary in popular opinion, David Taggart Dickinson '18, who is frequently to be seen tearing around Cambridge in his bright red three-wheeled "gig" and ten gallon hat, has no connection with the Fire Department. However, since early boyhood, fires have been his hobby, and at present he is unquestionably the foremost authority in Cambridge on their causes and prevention...
Coining an urbane phrase in which to describe the efforts of British diplomats in Washington and London to draw the Roosevelt Administration into their way of thinking, Sir Gerald Campbell, popular British Consul General in Manhattan, declared: "We should like to embroil the United States in peace." Added Sir Gerald hastily, "not to protect the British Empire, but to save humanity from itself...
Finally, last week, he announced he had "yielded to unanimous popular demand," would not leave the Republic now. Through the censorship barricade easily passed dispatches ending ironically, "the news caused great rejoicing throughout the Republic...
...will have been published by the University Press during 1935. These include largely books by professors here and elsewhere, as well as some theses written by graduate students of the University. No fiction is published, and all books are new. There are no reprints of classics, or of recent popular literature...
There has long been a popular belief in this country that it is an excellent thing for a boy to "work his way through college," earning money by mowing lawns, tending furnaces, or doing other jobs that have no connection with his college course. This sort of work has hardened the moral fibre of many youths, and it is true that many men whose names lend lustre to the pages of our history have earned their way to an education by such means. But conditions have changed more than is generally understood. It is less easy than it was thirty...