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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Pennsylvania Gazette recorded the fact with the unemotional curtness of a modern press association "flash." "On Monday last, at twelve o'clock, the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed at the state house in this city," announced the Gazette for July 10, 1776, "in the presence of many thousand spectators, who testified their approbation by repeated acclamations...
...energy faster than the surface can radiate it. Something of the sort happened to a star in NGC 4273 long before the first men appeared on Earth. Light from the blow-up started toward Earth at 186,000 miles per second, sped on for 7,000,000 years. Thirty thousand years ago it reached the fringe of the Milky Way. Four years ago it was inside Proxima Centauri, Earth's nearest star. Going fast enough to circle Earth seven times in a second, the light took only 5 hr. 30 min. to cross the outer solar system...
Sixty-five thousand graduates were sent invitations today to participate in the Tercentenary Celebration next September, and a point is raised on the consideration of whether Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09 has been invited. If this is the case, cross-Atlantic waters are sure to be disturbed automatically once more...
...liquor consumption at the auditorium bar, you fail to mention there were several hundred commercial exhibits on the same floor level, with over a thousand salesmen representing many firms selling school supplies and equipment. I was constantly mingling with schoolmen and failed to notice at anytime a colleague with symptoms of indulgence. At least the outward manifestation was not comparable to the American Legion convention you mention...
...thousand years hence ethnologists delving into college-midderns, will dig out such artifacts of Homo Universitas as the cram. The cram is a dull, boring weapon used to bar sleep from the study den. It is used to pound, stamp, and otherwise insert into the Universitas head enough assorted facts to pass exams...