Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result is that the Council has the duties of the executives, the judge, and the reporter. Its position is very different from that of like bodies to which the Class of 1941 has been accustomed at school. Its prestige results more from its position as reporter and judge than as executive. Harvard is too fundamentally individualistic to pay great respect to a body whose only claim to fame is that it represents the undergraduates. The individual members of the Council are not necessarily "big men on the campus." The only way to be a big man on the Harvard scene...
...Appointments for conferences with Faculty Advisers. Each Freshman is expected to report to his Adviser at this hour with the study card which he received in his registration envelope. This card properly filled out and signed by the Adviser should be handed in as soon as ready at University Hall C. A. fine of $5.00 is charged for study cards of new Freshmen submitted after 5 P. M. on Monday, September 27. Provisionally classified students may file their cards not later than 5 P. M. on Tuesday, September...
Most positive proponent of the gliding theory is University of Michigan's Ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs, who published his observations in the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1935. He testified that "flying fishes gain the momentum to get into the air with their rigid wings by a surface taxi of from 5 to 15 yards at a speed of about 10 yards a second, comparable to the speed of the best sprinters. This speed is attained by a sculling action of the tail fin. . . . To attain, the speed necessary to get into the air, an average...
Said Mr. Gay in his annual report: "I am fearful that, in an effort to cure what might be termed sporadic evils, undue restraints are being placed upon normal, proper action, thus creating abnormal market conditions. Evidence accumulates that the quality of the market has been seriously affected. With muc concern I note the continuance of narrow, illiquid markets in which wide spreads between bid and asked quotations prevail and in which comparatively small volumes of buying or selling create undue fluctuations in prices. Almost daily, situations are called to my attention wherein it is impossible to buy or sell...
...made a good living as head of a band of White Russian bravos who, according to rumor, have been doing Japan's dirty work for years in Manchukuo. In 1929 he collected $700,000 in Imperial Russian funds from the Yokohama Specie Bank. Fortnight ago he was reported responsible for a raid on the Soviet consulate in Tientsin. Peiping's alarm was caused by a new report that he was on his way to raid the Soviet's Peiping Embassy...