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This unique trophy, a white china mug of generous size, first appeared last spring in the Lowell House common room, with an accompanying message to the effect that the unknown donors wished thereby to commemorate the undefeated season of the Lowell House oarsmen, who had nosed out five different crews during the spring season. Given as a perpetual trophy of the Dunster-Lowell race, the gleaming bowl has remained in the possession of Lowell
...Board has been conscious of one of the chief difficulties which colleges encounter in admitting students. This is the inability to judge the value of certificates which admit students to college without examination, when those certificates are issued by small and remote schools whose marking systems and standards are unknown. For this reason colleges frequently admit men in no way qualified for advanced work, with the natural result of retarding the whole educational process...
These substances have been known as "tropic impulses" for many years, but their nature has been entirely unknown. It was thought by many scientists that there were special "tropic" nerves which had to do with the nourishment of tissues. Professor Parker has shown by his experiments that these "hormone like substances" run in the opposite direction from ordinary nerve impulses at the remarkably slow rate of two centimeters a day, compared to about 25 meters a second for the ordinary impulses...
...Manhattan, grossed $1,203,000, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1929 (TIME, May 19, 1930). With 64 speaking parts, a cast of 78 and elaborate mechanical effects, it was an expensive production but its success enriched everyone connected with it. What Producer Stebbins made out of it is unknown but, based on 10% royalties, Author Connelly and Roark Bradford should share some $120,000 from the Manhattan run alone. The play is now in Chicago with the original cast, will be seen in Milwaukee and San Francisco before disbanding...
This year Postmaster General Brown was informed that an unknown business house in New York was sending 1,000,000 pieces of Christmas advertising to Santa Claus for remailing. "General" Brown ordered extra men and postal equipment to the village to handle the rush. Then the firm changed its mind, decided to mail from home. Thoroughly annoyed, the Postmaster General last week announced that his department had had enough of this foolishness and that on Jan. 1 the name of the Santa Claus post office would be changed to something more commonplace...