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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high with red covered chairs around it, jutted out into the field. . . . "Surrounding all and covering the whole field from edge to edge was a vast sea of faces. All dress was invisible except in the front line, all personality obliterated. . . . "Then Herr Hitler. And once more the magic spell that this man exercises over millions of his followers was seen at work as this throng hung upon his words. Yet there was little in them that was new- perhaps there is little he needs to say that would be new to an audience that never seems to tire...
...Miss Hilliard talked along under the spell of the clock glow of the clock tower of Lowell House last night at the Spring dance where she was appearing with Ozzie Nelson and his band. In an atmosphere of revolving rainbows, a giant turning fly-wheel, and a crowd of dancers, she seemed very austere and calm, even when a large black cat had to be forcibly removed from the assembly...
...closely related to the black flies which pester humans farther north. Buffalo gnats breed in swift-flowing streams, attaching their wormlike larvae to the downstream side of a large rock or log. After a month or six weeks the larvae spin cocoons, soon emerge full-grown. The first spell of warm weather sends them swarming to fields and barnyards...
...half course if taken with a grade of C or better, continues the work of integration in Osgood where the Freshman left off, and concludes with a rather thorough investigation of infinite series; the latter will prove extremely boring to any but the mathematics fanatic, though offering a breathing spell after the rigors of definite integrals. The second term includes a month of Solid Analytic to prepare the student for the mysteries of partial differentiation...
Professor Tozzer gives all the lectures in the course and although he doesn't attempt to hold his listeners spell-bound he manages to keep the audience awake, which is more than some lecturers can boast. Slides, almost every week liven up the work, and make the students tear their hair when tested on them at the end of the year. If a man wants to become acquainted with the University Museum, which, by the way, is quite a fascinating morgue, the Museum Walks in Anthropology 1 will do the trick...