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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indignant, too, was Author Ernest Hemingway of Key West. After reporting the carnage in last week's New Masses, he passionately apostrophized one of the dead: "You're dead now, brother, but who left you there in the hurricane months on the Keys where a thousand men died before you in the hurricane months when they were building the road that's now washed out? Who left you there? And what's the punishment for manslaughter...
...Exalt Women!" Fifty thousand German women and girls marshaled by hard-bosomed Gertrude Scholtzklink, No. 1 female Nazi, hailed Herr Hitler with bursts of wild, ecstatic cheering which kept up for the whole 45 minutes that he addressed them in his happiest mood...
...addition to the venerable monarchs of the Yard, Harvard owns millions of trees on a 2.200 acre tract in Worcester County some 75 miles west of Boston. Scattered fragments of primeval timber and a great variety of all stages of regrowth are included in the Harvard Forest. A thousand acres have been set aside as a bird refuge to be administered by the University and the State. Instruction at the Forest is given graduate men working in forestry...
...first in the broad jump with a leap of 23 feet, 11 inches, and later avenged his hurdles defeat when he led Philbrow to the tape in the last event of the meet, the 220-yard hurdles. Quoting the "Daily Mail" for what it is worth. "It was a thousand pities that a bad start prevented Pilbrow from winning the last event--the low hurdles--and so giving victory to Oxford and Cambridge. Green, however, got a 'filer.' Although Pilbrow sprinted wonderfully well, he could not get on terms...
...proctors, no bursarial charges, few lectures and few official sports. Officially an opportunity for extra study and vacation work amidst suitable surroundings, this Long Vac Term is a godsend to the man who has no plans for the summer but does not wish to stay at home. Of six thousand undergraduates some thousand are usually in residence for the Long Vac Term. A few of them work, having failed exams in June which they are to take again in October. Others work because they are made that way. But for most people the Long Vac Term is a rollicking affair...