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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unaccountably shattered. From Grenoble. Dr. Jean Bremond had set out on a skiing trip across the Swiss border with his three young daughters. Up & up they slid along the Great St. Bernard pass. Cru-u-unch went their skis in the granular Alpine snow as they came in sight of the home of the pious monks of St. Bernard. A deep-voiced barking broke out as the famed dogs of the monastery came leaping to greet the travelers. Shrieking with laughter and excitement, ten-year-old Marie-Anne hurried ahead...
Said Matt Henson, 72-year-old Negro who is the sole surviving member of Admiral Robert Edwin Peary's party that trekked to the Pole in 1909: "It was a sight harder...
Fishermen twelve miles off the Louisiana mainland in Caillou Bay are inclined to swear when they come in sight of what looks like a gigantic harbor buoy sticking up between two scows. A structure they think improper to the high seas, this is no buoy but one of several oil derricks erected in the bay by Texas Co. Called "deep-sea drilling," Texaco's operations are in water no deeper than 25 ft., but geophysical crews mapping off-shore contours often have to take dynamite soundings. The fishermen claim that any fish not killed or scared clean to Cuba...
Harvard's undergraduates have been promised this balance, and they feel that the promised land is not yet in sight. How long it will be before the college's teaching prowesses are up to its researching abilities is a question that can only be answered by Harvard's department heads and those who mould the policy of the University...
...music will all be read at sight, and it is hoped that everyone taking part will be able to "swing" as simultaneously as possible...