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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candidates for the positions of Chairman and Business Manager of the Freshman Register are invited to attend a meeting on Wednesday at 7:30 o'clock, probably in the Adams House Upper Common Room. This will be the first opportunity for members of the Class of 1946 to get on an undergraduate publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Register Opens Competition For Chairman | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Weekly colloquia and "hollow-square" conferences have been scheduled by the staff of the Harvard Observatory to take place on Tuesday evenings for lectures on such subjects as theories of stellar evolution and the temperature of the earth's upper atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hollow Square" Conferences, Talks on Astronomy Planned | 6/26/1942 | See Source »

...conference and the following week a special colloquium is planned to commemorate the work of Dr. A. B. Wyso. Hollow Square conferences will be held on July 21 and August 4, and on July 28 Dr. F. L. Whipple will speak on "Densities and Temperatures in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere." Plans for the second summer school session have not been announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hollow Square" Conferences, Talks on Astronomy Planned | 6/26/1942 | See Source »

...used four times as many day coaches as Pullmans to haul troops, and at night a doughboy usually had to fold himself up to rest on a dusty, red-plush day-coach seat. Today's soldiers travel across the U.S. two in a lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter at night and trains make better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: On the Way to | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Each Freshman as well as each upperclassman is required to get four athletic credits a week throughout the whole year. In past years, Freshmen were required to get three credits, while upper classmen were exempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS, ONCE FRESHMAN ORDEAL, NOW TAKEN BY ALL | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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