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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About once every season it is well for a student vagabond to wonder a little further a field in search of interesting activities. In 40 B. C. Horace the Latin poet said "Be gay Focus eat of stuffed lampreys drink of the sharp Aventine wine so long as ye are not dyspeptic...
...England at any rate; and men's attitudes toward it, at Harvard, had changed accordingly. Since then the religious sentiments of Harvard has tended toward loyalty to the kind of church that is not afraid with any amazement, regardless of the discoveries that may be made in the search for truth...
...scene of on unusual real, estate boom. Two large cafeterias have been built in the last two years; a third is now in process of construction. Lunch-rooms, delicatessens, and coffee-houses have sprung up with mushroom-like rapidity. The Square at luncheon hour teems with undergraduates in search of nutriment...
...memory of John Fritz, iron and steel pioneer. It has given the Fritz medal to Lord Kelvin (transatlantic cables), George Westinghouse (air brakes), Alexander Graham Bell (telephones). Last week it designated a slender little man from whose brain have sprung electric arc lights, electric carriages, gyroscopes, super-search-lights, compound Diesel engines. It named Elmer Ambrose Sperry and specifically recognized his "development of the gyrocompass and the application of the gyroscope to the stabilization of ships and airplanes...
...protests of upperclassmen may be explained by resentment at any tentative attempt to invest the Freshman Dormitories with those attributes which have for so long been the monopoly of the Gold Coast. But anyone who finds sensationalism in the mild comment of the reports in question betrays a purposeful search that does him more discredit than the reports could do to any Freshman...