Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Lippmann '10, prominent author and columnist, will deliver a series of public lectures given under the Godkin Foundation, it was learned late yesterday. Mr. Lippmann, who is now on vacation in Florida, will be unable to come to Harvard until after the April recess...
...will now take a ten-minute recess. during which you will go in person, call on the telephone, write a letter or send a telegram, fully and frankly confessing your most recent deceit, explaining a recent negligence, apologizing for a discourtesy or keeping an overdue promise...
...Pennsylvania Railroad and T. A. T., had an uncomfortable time with the committee. He admitted that Postmaster Brown had promised a transcontinental mail contract if T. A. T. would merge with Western Air Express. Result: the merged company, Transcontinental & Western Air, now flies the mail. After a noon recess Mr. Sheaffer returned with amended testimony. Chairman Black shot at him: "Where'd you go for lunch?" The witness flushed, stammered, admitted he had lunched with officials involved in the transaction under investigation. Later Mr. Sheaffer had to resort frequently to a briefcase full of papers to refresh his memory...
...petitions have been circulating among members of the Junior, Sophomore, and Freshman classes, which ask that next year's recess be at least two weeks in length. These petitions state that nearly all institutions of learning in the country have a longer holiday than Harvard. They also point out that Harvard students are unable to attend many lectures, social events, and meetings given for students on vacation. According to the petitioners, some of the single day holidays during the year may be converted into an addition to the Christmas-New Year recess, without disobeying any State or National laws...
With victories for Lowell, Dunster, Eliot, and Kirkland Houses, yesterday's matches were marked chiefly defaults, probably as a result of the proximity of the Christmas Recess...