Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first printed code of orthodox Jewish life was published a quarter-century after the Gutenberg Bible (1452). It was Rabbi Jacob 'ben Asher's famed Arba Turim (Code of the Jews). For five centuries it disappeared from the sight of orthodox Jews. Lately it was found in Italy bearing on its Hebraic pages three visas of papal inquisitioners who had examined it for heresies. Last week it was taken to Manhattan and placed in the Jewish Theological Seminary. It was purchased with funds (of concealed volume) donated by Theatrical Producer Abraham Lincoln Erlanger...
...clubs, which at first were inclined to look with disfavor on the house plan because they feared it might lead to their extinction, have changed their views. We have no doubt that discussion and the spreading of information will remove even the slight opposition which now exists in any quarter. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...class crews in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon. The winning crew with the exception of the stroke was the same that was piloted to victory by R. I. McKesson '31 on Tuesday afternoon. The race was rowed from above the Cottage Farm Bridge to a point about a quarter of a mile beyond the Harvard Bridge...
...Senior eight piloted by S. W. Swaim '31 fell a full length behind its nearest rival by the time the race had progressed as far as the Harvard Bridge and, under instructions from Coach E. J. Brown '96, did not finish out the last quarter mile. The crew was somewhat handicapped by the presence of several substitutes who had not yet accustomed themselves to the boat...
Rough water near the Cambridge shore prevented a trial over the measured course and the race was rowed close to the Boston wall. these informal races will be continued until the weather conditions are ripe for sending the crews over the mile and three quarter course on the lower Charles River...