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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Saturday the Cornell crew rowed to a victory over Syracuse and M.I.T. The race was run over a short course and would not mean a great deal one way or the other, except that M.I.T. was left six lengths behind at the finish Line. The Harvard crew only registered six lengths itself against Technology...
...trace the racial history of the white division of Homo sapiens from its Pleistocene [Glacial Age] beginnings to the present." Dr. Coon believes that the species Homo sapiens-modern man-evolved as early as the middle of the Pleistocene, or even earlier.† The first known white representatives were short men with long heads. Some of them blended with bulky Neanderthaloid types, produced a fairly stable hybrid group. After the Pleistocene's end these hybrids survived in Europe as hunters and fishers. Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean area a race of pure Homo sapiens ancestry appeared which learned agriculture...
...Dateline: Europe he adds a split to the already dual personality of Rosten and Ross, in a glib, neatly joined short novel about a foreign correspondent. Laid in Belgovenia, it covers the adventures of Peter Strake and girls in an abortive Putsch, drips conversational tinsel like a Christmas tree, is neither standard Ross nor Rosten. As one character says: "It's like a cross between Graustark and the Arabian Nights, written by E. Phillips Oppenheim." Authors McCutcheon, Scheherazade, Oppenheim might object, but to most readers Dateline: Europe will seem like a versatile slip which can do Author Rosten...
...name you want to give it. When the student ceases to boast of the B or C he got and begins to boast of the new stock of knowledge he has acquired and the new ideas such knowledge has engendered, then and only then will your crusade be won. Short of this there are only palliative. Of course, the Corporation might hire persons to organize a student's work for him free, thus driving the commercial house out of business. But that would simply be a transference and enlargement of the evil. The students might "gang-up" on the cream...
...lecture, the last of a series of three on the general topic, "The Changing West," will start at 8 o'clock. The lectures have been given under the auspices of the Harvard Committee on Extra Curricular Study of American History. It will be broadcast internationally over the non-commercial short wave station WIXAL, of Boston...