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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wild enthusiasm on the part of the members of the course is hardly to be expected. In short, it is a half course covering what could be a distinctly interesting field of human knowledge, in a most decidedly uninteresting way. This being the case, concentration in Anthropology or the search for a relatively easy half point toward the degree are the only plausible reasons for taking the course...
...over the telephone, and Arthur who has been courting assiduously for months is plain stymied. "They give me the cold shoulder," is too often the story of the shipping clerk who is out of it because he lacks the ambition to become at least bi-lingual in the mad search for knowledge. The primitive day of the quoter of Shelley has passed, and John may be forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course, a plain challenge to the colleges...
...prevalent is the spirit of the west throughout the play that wide canvas of the University is being made to find a westerner who can faithfully imitate the howl of the coyote. If the search is successful, the effective imitator will enjoy the distinction of being the first person to imitate the coyote's howl over the radio, as a rehearsal of scenes five and six, in which the coyote features, will be given this evening over station WNAC...
Because the Eser fossils were acquired by the Boston Society of Natural. History in 1873, and subsequently presented to the University museum, the Stuttgart museum wrote to the University asking for either the loan of the fossils, or photographs. A search of the University museum failed to discover the particular type fossils requested, and it was only after a long search that the lost types were found in an obscure corner of the Boston Society museum...
...London. The printer's son slid it into a nook in his library; forgot about it. Last year the printer's son happened to mention the manuscript to Mitchell Kennerley, President of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. Followed desperate excitement on the part of Mr. Kennerley; a desperate search by the printer's son of his London and New York homes for the manuscript; finally discovery at his English country place. There are 226 faintly yellowed pages in Wilde's exquisite script. The printer's son is George Arliss, famed actor...