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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within little more than a week, the final lecture will have been delivered in most of the upperclass courses. A majority of the undergraduates, after the Christmas vacation, will begin a diligent search for lecture notes, either among their friends or among the numerous tutoring agencies which thrive just outside the gates of the Yard. It is not only those who have spent the fall in riotous living who will be engaged in this prevalent mid-year sport, but all those who have cut lectures freely and all those to whom extensive note-taking is a distraction from lectures...
...time it was defending precisely what it is opposing today. It was defending the concept of community regulated according to function, one aimed at spiritual ends with commerce as a mere thing to keep the body alive until death. It was fighting the rising concept of material progress, the search for wealth as an end in itself or as the sole way to happiness, the new idea of selfishness as an eternal law which made this the best possible of all worlds...
...George H. Parker said last night that the essentials for a good biologist are curiosity and desire to search...
...look like a political murder, Irmin tried to get De Vriendt to leave town. On the eve of his departure he was shot. Immediately riots popped. The Agudists made a martyr of him; the Zionists and the Arabs each accused the other of his murder. Irmin began a relentless search for the killer. Meanwhile De Vriendt's followers had learned the shocking truth about him. Soon he was deliberately forgotten by nearly everybody. But Irmin remembered him so well that when he finally ran down De Vriendt's murderer...
...gondola and threw off ballast. A 55 m.p.h. wind swept the bag southeast across Ohio toward Washington. Near East Liverpool (Ohio) they were up 12,500 ft.; near Pittsburgh, up 49,000. At last, they scratched over 58,000 ft., began to descend, and while an all-night search for them was begun by Navy planes and land parties, landed near Bridgeton, N. J. They had not broken the Russian record, but they had sent the first U. S. balloon into the stratosphere...