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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books essential for Freshman History and English studies will probably be placed in what is now a private dining room on the second floor of the Union, where the volumes will be used for study and kept entirely separate from the general library on the first floor, which will remain intact for pleasure reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN LIBRARY TO BE MOVED TO ROOM IN UNION | 2/27/1931 | See Source »

Most men's decisions about their careers are leaps in the dark. The danger of leaping too soon is that a person of narrow experience is apt to remain blind to the qualities lacking in his particular existence. Routine jobs mould youth too fast. If college gives undergraduates the opportunity to travel some distance along several roads, if it keeps a man "unformed" until he can share with some intelligence the choice of his form, it is not the worst place to send this same "callow youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HE CONQUERED GALAHAD | 2/24/1931 | See Source »

...King, on recommendation of R. B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada, offered the Governor Generalship of that Dominion to the Duke of Abercorn, but the Duke felt he should remain in Ulster to complete his second term of office and therefore could not see his way to accept this appointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ulster Bull | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...this was a most outrageous Irish bull. Had not His Majesty eventually appointed the 9th Earl of Bessborough to be Governor General of Canada (TIME, Feb. 16)? To brand Bessborough publicly as a second choice, to reveal blandly that the Duke of Abercorn has turned Canada down, preferring to remain Governor of Northern Ireland-"that," sputtered the Liberal London Star last week, "is one of those things which are 'not done.' We cannot recall an indiscretion of parallel magnitude in connection with a command from royalty. ... In Court circles . . . this gross discourtesy . . . to the Crown . . . has not passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ulster Bull | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...remarked that the plane behaved much as an alighting bird breasts the wind with its wings to check its speed, the comparison would have been more than poetical. The wings of the biplane, adjustable in flight, did just that. Lower and upper wings are rigidly connected with struts, remain in the same relation to each other. But by a hand-crank in the pilot's cockpit, the lower wing can be moved fore & aft, pendulum-like, through an arc of 14 degrees, tilting the upper wing to the same degree. About to land, the pilot sets his wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Hands Off | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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