Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students drop from College during the summer, the room vacancies will be turned over to men on the waiting list, instead of to incoming freshmen. Students on the list will receive their assignments by the Fall term, either in one of the Houses, the outside dormitories, or Wigglesworth Hall...
...students, whether on the waiting list or not, will be considered equally for vacancies that occur in the Houses during the summer. Those that don't get in will become non-resident members of some House...
...appointment follows the retirement last year of Dean Roscoe Pound, who had served as University Professor since 1935, when the four posts were first established. The other three chairs are currently held by Werner Jaeger, Classicist; Summer H. Slichter, economist; and Ivor A. Richards, humanist...
Professor Graton also goes west for his work--out to Yellowstone National Park and the geyser country. Last summer he wired up a cable with six electric thermometers, all recording simultaneously on a remote sheet of graph paper. He carried the device all over Yellowstone, and lowered it down the gullet of every geyser he could find...
...happened last summer, when Graton had dropped his cable into Old Faithful, to study the temperature of the world's most famous geyser. Suddenly his instruments tripped some unknown underground trigger, and Old Faithful-- which had faithfully erupted every 63 minutes since the Indians found it--blew its top 15 minutes too soon. Graton and his party didn't know the geyser was loaded, but they backed out of the way before anyone was hurt...