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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first the origin of the explosions was believed to have been the X-ray room where twelve bodies were found. Later it was placed in the film storage room in the basement. On the morning of the disaster one Buffery Bogg, steamfitter, had been called to repair a leaking steam pipe. He found the leak in the film room and removed a section of the covering, but the pipe was too hot to work on. So he went out and asked to have the steam turned off. When he returned the room was filled with steam. Something on the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cleveland Clinic | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...this experience resulted in felt hats rather than in felt shoes, legend does not relate, but it is undeniably true that the raw material for felt hats is the little animal with the long ears and the reputation for timidity and fertility. The straw hat lacks a romantic legendary origin, but includes in its ranks probably the world's most expensive hat-the Panama-handwoven from fibres of palm leaves in Ecuador and priced up to $500. Knox sells about a half dozen a year of the $500 variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...doubt offers more real opportunity for interchange of ideas and the promotion of friendship than many a football classic or track meet. Much of present day college administration centers in the dean's office, and it is here that most measures which directly affect the student body have their origin. Anything, therefore, which brings the occupants of these key positions together ought also to result in a closer coordination of the aims and methods of the colleges involved. During today and tomorrow Harvard has the privilege and the responsibility of playing host to a gathering which has unique potentialities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEANS FOREGATHER | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

...they will be House Masters first, last, and all the time. Their reputations are going to depend on the records made in all the fields of college activity, by the students under their care. It will be of immense importance to each House Master, therefore, to know the origin, the character and the abilities of his new Freshmen before they come to him, so that he and his instructors may advise them wisely, and help them make the most of their own possibilities. If a house has a real esprit de corps, the upper-classmen will share this interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Plans for the House | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

...Mount Auburn Clambake Award. The metal of this trophy has a delicate green tinge that sets off the bead-fringed wormholes in a most favorable light. The age of the cup has never been correctly estimated, although the Latin inscription "Sie Konnen Mit Mir Trinken" indicates an obscure origin. The winners of it last year were the Cambridge Flying Squadron but it is apparently going to change hands again this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ownership of Ancient and Traditional Loving Cup Will be Contested in Crimson-Lampy Game--Crew Race Precedes | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

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