Word: set
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee set Wednesday December 18 at 8 o'clock as the date for the first meeting of the foreign students. This gathering will be of informal nature and it is expected that a distinguished speaker whose name is to be announced at a later date will give a short address during the evening. Refreshments will be served. It was determined that an informal plan such as this will be followed as a change from the more formal round table discussions of last year...
There were 1633 books altogether in June, 1928, during the two year period ending last spring, 120 books have been lost. Of the separate departments, Government has lost 50, Economics has lost 45, and 25 have disappeared from the collection of History books. In one instance, out of a set of ten books, seven were found to be missing after a year. All of these have had to be replaced...
...generally efficient library administration might solve its problem by a careful system of checking up on books returned, and thus entirely remove the premium it has set on laziness, dishonesty, and mental and moral inertia...
...subspecies and not 15 or more, as scientists previously believed, declares H. J. Coolidge, Jr. '27, assistant curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, after the first exhaustive study ever made of most of the material now available on the subject throughout the world. His findings are set forth in a monograph just published by the Museum of Comparative Zoology under the title "A Revision of the Genus Gorilla...
...personally taken a set of thirty measurements of each of 400 skulls, reduced them to percent-ages, grouped them by locality and plotted the curves of variation. He made these computations without any preconceived theory as to what he might find and studied the curves of variation which resulted. On these he discovered that certain measurements showed sufficiently great differences between regions to warrant calling them different subspecies. Study of the curves forced him to divide the species into Gorilla gorilla gorilla (Savage & Wyman) or Coast, and Gorilla gorilla beringei (Matschie) or Mountain. It happens that the first of these...