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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Time have spoken and written about the old German gods Wodin and Thor, etc. These are essentially Danish, from away back into the dark 400 A.D. and were known as Odin and Thor, hence the weekdays, Onsdag (Wednesday) & Torsdag (Thursday) ; and Fredag (Friday) from Freja (j pronounced as y), Goddess of Beauty and Intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

Seniors elect Melone, Bowditch, Kessler as Marshals of Class. Annual H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs starts today with 158 guests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lest We Forget . . . | 6/16/1937 | See Source »

Remainder of the program remains unchanged. Harvard speakers are, at the Friday afternoon session, Thomas H. Sanders, professor of Accounting, and William Y. Elliott, professor of Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN L. LEWIS CAN'T SPEAK AT BUSINESS SCHOOL; TOO BUSY | 6/16/1937 | See Source »

With the closing of the current academic year at hand the thoughtful undergraduate can look back on numerous university achievements that share the limelight. Most easily recalled are the Tercentenary and the H-Y-P Conference. Perhaps not so readily remembered are the important accomplishments of the Harvard Student Council, the revival of which began last year when its constitution was brought up to date. Led by an enterprising chairman in 1936-37, the Council made seven major investigations, awarded twenty-two scholarships, gave 42500 to Phillips Brooks House, $1000 to local charities, and rescued 1200 middies from the subway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN RETROSPECT | 6/16/1937 | See Source »

Henderson was a great yachtsman and golfer, at Princeton a good ballplayer. Therein he differed from Aldrich, a son of Harvard, almost as sharply as in his prose. Aldrich cared little for sport aside from horses. He liked tweeds, quiet, his 400-acre estate near Barrytown, N. Y. His articles were always calm, stately, exact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Silenced Oracles | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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