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This year's prize will be offered for the best essay of from five to ten thousand words on a subject in American literature approved by the chairman of the Department of English. Theses in sertations submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy may be accepted, but no essay submitted for any other prize this year is eligible...
...discarded clothes and books which can be used the next year. This group also does some social service work and tries to interest other members of their class in the settlement houses. It is interesting to note that through the time given by undergraduates to these houses over three thousand people in Greater Boston were influenced last year...
Ancient though it is, Rome got around to building a subway for the first time only last week when Benito Mussolini swung a pickax with such vigor that he cracked a paving stone in the Piazza Bocca della Verità. Five thousand Fascist workmen are to build the four miles of subway in four years, by that time will probably be as proud as the overpropagandized Red toilers in Moscow who through Intourist interpreters ask travelers: "Is it not wonderful that the Soviet form of State has enabled us to build a subway? You have no subway...
Toward these ends, a survey of the Irish race has been made, including measurements of ten thousand males and two thousand females. Irish excavations throwing light upon the neolithic period were made at Larne, County Antrim, as well as others at Lagore and Creevykeel. Skeletons were studied by Dr. W. W. Howells, and sociological data analyzed by Doctors Arensburg and Kimball...
Farther to the east, Dr. Gordon T. Bowles and his wife have secured anthropometric data on five thousand individuals in the Indian foothill area. The particular purpose of this survey was to analyze racial origins and migrations along the significant borderland of India and Tibet, the investigation extending from the extreme northwest to Assam and Burma...