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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Repairs on the Memorial Hall clock which have been effected in the past few days will be completed today according to information received from official sources yesterday. No reason could be ascertained from the college authorities for the unusual action of the clock in the past few days; but upon inquiry it was discovered that the unwieldy flight of a vagrant pigeon had disturbed the movement that has been continual for a decade or less. Workmen perched high upon the dangerous scaffold spent several hours in the effort to repair the damage caused by the misdirected ramblings of the winged...
Your editorial assumes that the final examination counts for practically nothing. In fact our practice is to count it as the equivalent of nine weekly papers. There is no more reason for saying that the final examination counts for practically nothing than for saying that nine weekly papers count for practically nothing. The real question is this: is the final examination fairly weighted as equivalent to nine weekly papers? If you think that either more or less weight should be assigned to the final examination than is assigned under our present practice, I should be glad to know what change...
History I and Economics A. both elementary courses which fall in the same category with Government I, have worked out a far more satisfactory relationship between the short weekly checking up and final examinations, and there is no real reason why Government I cannot change its methods so that they are more in keeping with a policy which is being so universally followed elsewhere in the University...
Peter Arno, caricaturist (covers for the New Yorker), has a small daughter, Patricia. Last week she was vaccinated on the sole of her foot. Reason given by her mother, Lois Long ("Lipstick") Arno: ''Even if she becomes a second Lady Godiva, no one will think of finding a vaccination scar there...
Elections to the Senior Societies at one time meant "recognition" of leadership and distinguished performance in the undergraduate world, plus character, and for that reason were "honors" so recognized by the Campus at large. But a change has come. The great size of the Classes since the War (running to over 500 men), the rise of the Junior Fraternities as social clubs and the mixing of all Classes in class-room work, have been subtly and steadily changing all this, so that the character of the Senior-Society elections--and hence their importance on the Campus--within the last...