Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Information Committee, under the chairmanship of W. W. Foshay '31, prepares a registry of available living quarters in Cambridge, and conducts an information bureau in the early weeks of the Fall term. The Handbook Committee, with its chairman A. R. Maynard '30, edits and publishes the Harvard Handbook...
...system of bounds that is enforced at Oxford and Cambridge, the rule that compels every undergraduate to be within his college precincts by midnight, that allows him only one week-end leave each term, is repugnant to our independence. But if the accidents and casualties continue to increase we may have to accept it. Both of the prohibitions cited in the first paragraph were occasioned by specific disasters. We cannot afford to grant intellectual privileges to machines that hurt. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...attempting to gain retrial and release for one Oscar Slater, Edinburgh Jew, jailed on a murder charge. Sir Arthur guaranteed $5,000 for Slater's retrial, paid $1,500 of that sum himself. Year ago Slater was retried, released, awarded $30,000 government compensation for his long jail term. Last week Scot Doyle, still unable to collect his $1,500, remarked: "Slater is not a murderer but an ungrateful dog, and I think the Scottish nation should repay me." Prosperous, clad in voluminous plus-fours, smoking a fat cigar, Oscar Slater received newsgatherers in his suite at a large...
...Liberal Club dining room will be open to members today, serving both luncheon and dinner as usual, it was announced by A. D. Langmuir '31, president of the Club. Members are urged to bring guests for meals on the first few days of the term...
...true progress is made. To be dubbed "Victorian" is to be considered old fashioned, conservative, and even stagnant; to be classed as "medieval" implies unenlightenment, ignorance, and superstition. Yet "Victorian" and "medieval" also connote something fundamental and worth while in the shifting educational atmosphere of the present. Occasionally a term of derision becomes a symbol of strength and mental stability. Williams Alumni Bulletin