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...alive with young women in sports clothes hurrying along neat walks with bridge lamps, books, trash baskets, suitcases. Three hundred and seventy of them were freshmen. After supper they and 854 upperclassmen trooped into a red-roofed, Collegiate-Gothic chapel. There President Henry Noble MacCracken, his full, pink face looking some-what careworn, droned a mild message of greeting to the effect that while three-score years and ten is a respectable age for a human, it is mere childhood for an up & coming institution like Vassar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five Sisters | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

Pointing out that Harvard was some-what unusual in having no type of Varsity rally, Coach Casey attributed this to the complexity of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean, Casey, and Farrell Chief Speakers For Freshman Football Rally on Friday in Union | 11/15/1933 | See Source »

...wonder what you read," said Professor John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson professor of English, to a Freshman class recently. "I'm just wondering." Professor Lowes was some-what perturbed when he mentioned a familiar incident from "Pilgrim's Progress," and from a class of two hundred received not a single sign of recognition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Lowes Raises Eyebrows as Freshmen Overlook "Pilgrim's Progress"--"Film Fun" Replaces Better Pursuits | 4/15/1933 | See Source »

...weeks ago a Colgate went back to Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Last week a Thompson went back to 118 one-armed lunchrooms, but the process was some-what different. In 1927 John R. Thompson, self-made founder of the restaurant chain died leaving to his estate a lot of old masters (Hals, Raeburn, Corot, Diaz, Millet, Rousseau, Bellini) that had cost him some $750,000. To his company he left his Yale-educated Son (Class of 1918). John R. Jr. had been put through the business from the lunch counter up. Homely and negligent in dress, he was regarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: One-Arm Battle | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...quarter of the class, 276 men, received D grades and will be enrolled in special body-building classes for six weeks during the winter. This is some-what over the ordinary number of men with deficient posture, B grades were received by 251 men, or 23 per cent, and C's by 504, or 47 per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONLY 39 OUT OF 1115 MEN RECEIVE "A" IN POSTURE | 10/19/1932 | See Source »

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