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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Praying Curve. A certain track runs along such a treacherous precipice in the Rocky Mountains that, every time the train crawls along that stretch, passengers, trainmen and engineers utter what prayers are in them. The watchman of this section is a romantically minded youth who writes letters to a young lady under another man's name. One day the young lady ascends the Rockies to visit her correspondent and supposed lover. She is so chagrined at finding the wrong man that the hero has to save the train from being wrecked before the ending can become happy. On the whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hatrack, Revelry | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Principal of the London Day Training College, a school of the University of London. He has been principal of Aberdeen and Glasgow Training Colleges, and lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow, as well as president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and of the British Association, Educational Section. In 1902 Dr. Adams was named University Professor of Education in the University of London, becoming Emeritus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 2/3/1927 | See Source »

...Saturday, the Eastern Massachusetts Section of the Classical Association of New England will hold a joint meeting with the Classical Club of Greater Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Murdock Addresses Classicists | 2/2/1927 | See Source »

...shelf directly ahead of you, second section to the left of the mantel. They are bound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Few Books Stray From Farnsworth Room, Where Student Peruses "Punch" Daily and Librarian Lends a Nickel | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...seeker after romance immediately went to third section to the right of the mantel and began his search on the shelf at the level of his eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Few Books Stray From Farnsworth Room, Where Student Peruses "Punch" Daily and Librarian Lends a Nickel | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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