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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...typewriter is entirely different from machines we are accustomed to see. It consists of a tray of about 500 Chinese characters, a printed sheet or indicator showing the position of the various characters in the tray, a pointer, and the customary platen mechanism. The pointer is attached by a system of levers to the type tray; and when the former is brought over a desired character on the indicator, the corresponding letter on the type tray is brought beneath a small receptacle open at the bottom, but covered at the top by a rubber ball. A lever is pressed, suction...
...intensive use. But the report recently compiled by Dean Benedict and published in this morning's CRIMSON presents a truly startling array of figures. The fact that the rooms available for the use of the class meetings, apart from those set aside for special uses in the various laboratories and museums, are used up to nearly 100 percent capacity during the morning hours, reveals the fact that additions to the available space must be made in some way in the near future...
Following the first appearance of two University crews on the Charles River last Tuesday afternoon, with five more taking to the water yesterday, Coach E. J. Brown '96 announced that beginning next week regular races will be held in the basin between the various shells. Coach Brown said that the crews went out on the river earlier this year than for the past three or four years, the average date for their first appearance being about March...
Professor Hersey will give an illustrated lecture on "Stevenson and the Highlands" at 2 o'clock in Emerson J which should be well attended by those who have heard his previous talks on various authors and any other admirers of Stevenson besides. The musically inclined will find interest in a rendition of some of the works of Ravel which will be given by a String Quartet at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...
Arrangements have been made to accommodate 600, and a varied program of entertainment will be provided. Among the speakers for the evening will be George Owen '23, famous nine-letter Harvard athlete, now playing with the Boston Bruins. An orchestra is being secured, and there will be various specialty acts by well-known entertainers. Appropriate souvenirs have been purchased and will be distributed to all who attend. Among the amusements offered will be a motion picture, which is yet to be selected, but which will, it is hoped, come up to last year's standard...