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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engene Dickson Keith was yesterday names as Chairman of the Freshman Red Book by a Student Council Committee composed of Douglas Mercer '40 and Langdon P. Marvin...
...remain constant, is the essence of the university tradition, having four ultimate sources of strength: "first, the cultivation of learning for its own sake; secondly, the general educational stream of the liberal arts; thirdly, the educational stream that makes possible the professions; and, lastly, the never-failing river of student life carrying all the power that comes from the gregarious impulses of human beings...
...long time he has not made any aviation records and as a flier he does not represent anything worth while. . . . The few flights which he is now making in his little plane are now performed in this country by any member of the Aviation Club, any peasant, worker or student...
...1880s, Alfred Russell' Wallace, great British biologist who originated independently the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin, visited the U. S. He lectured at a small agricultural college in Kansas, stayed at the house of the college president. One student who listened to him with particularly wide-eyed wonder was the president's son, David Fairchild, who had already resolved to be a botanist, was studying parasitic fungi and the wind-borne movements of Kansas tumbleweed...
This seeming paradox existed due to the fact, that Abraham Pierson was a student from the Charles River Emporium.... Since at the time of the founding of the College there was no official seal, it was thought appropriate to place the arms of the former prexy's alma mater in a position which cried out for some specimen of the heraldic...