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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here a combined group of Harvard and Yale R. O. T. C. units gather for the study of Field Artillery, besides for the usual activities of a camping life...
Columbia, as usual, registered the most students; more than 21,000. The university intends to emphasize science research and teaching more than ever...
...nice little girl out of her element as a hostess in a dance hall, and it seems that she is misunderstood. After the local swains have attempted to discover the talent hidden behind a demure exterior; it finally turns out that the right party happens along, and after the usual expected and unexpected misunderstandings and controversies, the show...
This weakness lies far more in attitude than in capability. Every college student is familiar with the question: "Well, what do you do in college besides manage the hockey team?" The usual answer is no less illuminating than the question itself. The young man, flattered by the tribute to his executive ability, elaborates on the difficulties of his managerial position and then turns to club activities, theatres, and "brawls". Any reference to the academic will either produce embarrassment or be dismissed with a scornful, "Oh, you don't have to do any work to get through that place...
Chemistry's Value. Samuel Wilson Parr, 71, preceptor of the group of brilliant chemists and physicists at the University of Illinois, and president of the chemistry society, opened the meeting with the survey usual at such affairs: "Output of chemical products in this country have advanced in 50 years from an insignificant sum to more than $2,000,000,000 annually at present. . . . This is a chemical age, and we live, move and have our physical being as a result of chemical processes. Whether we travel on foot in chrome-tanned shoes and rayon stockings or roll to work...