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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the conclusion of eleventh hour student worries the Phillips Brooks House Association will open its annual drive for old text books, beginning next Monday. Under the direction of W. M. Dunn '30, representatives of each entry in the college dormitories will collect all the books that would otherwise become white elephants among the miscellaneous items that serve to burden the book shelves at the time of moving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text Book Drive | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

Each Ascension Day all the choir boys and a "party of substantial men" must go to St. Clement Danes Church and hear a sermon on the text: "Cursed be he that transgresseth the bounds and doles of his neighbor." Then, led by the rector, the choir boys and the "substantial men" must make a tour of the parish boundaries. In order that they shall never forget just where the boundaries are, the Virgin Queen decreed that the substantial men must soundly bump the heads of the choir boys against each boundary mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ascension Bumps | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...generally scanned: sports, science, medicine. Have loaned and given many copies to friends boosting your circulation for their sake not yours. Only criticism - too few photographs. G. E. RUSSELL Advertising Manager Oilman Fanfold Corp., Ltd. Niagara Falls, N. Y. TIME averages 24 pictures per week in 40 to 44 text pages (including Letters). Do subscribers agree with Subscriber Russell, want more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...clock of a morning, the opening round of the daily academic grind across the Charles. Another, who has trouble in covering large reading assignments, however simple, will not indorse any course in which the facts to be mastered must be gotten through voluminous reading in assorted text books. Still another, who likes to spend the week-ends away from Cambridge, will not take any course which comes between the mystic hours of noon and 1 o'clock, for the very simple reason that the fastest train for New York leaves the South Station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...fast and savage new indoor game of feather wafting, to kodaking the koodoo in Africa, to drop-tag as a pleasing sport for the flyer, and to the fact that while you cannot afford to buy a race-horse, the Aga Khan. The pictures are better than the text, but of what sporting paper, is this not true? Leslie Cheek '31 supplies an uproarious cover, and the whole staff has been busy making composographs and very good composographs they have turned out to be. There is something bold and fine in the conception of a pair of apteryxes defying gunners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY STEPS ON NO TOES IN NEW PARODY NUMBER | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

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