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Cheerleaders wanted to hold Friday night mass meetings for other games since the Holy Cross fracas, but decided, "because of the failure of the Crusader rally, to collect all College enthusiasm for one night," Spear explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Will Rally Tonight By Torchlight | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

...muscularly modest man who sits behind a white-vaulted door in University Hall has a tricky and unromantic job ahead of him. Dean Bender, who claims he is "not the kind of man about whom legends collect," faces the task of filling the shoes of two almost legendary deans, LeBaron Russell Briggs and A. Chester Hanford. With his work three fourths disciplinary and routine, he has to draw in the reins on his positive plans for the College while he carries out a policy that the Faculty has formulated. A narrow thread between Administration and Student, his is probably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 11/5/1947 | See Source »

...instrument's chief working parts are a small chamber, a bronze wire (charged by a battery) and a fine, platinum-coated quartz fiber one-thirtieth the thickness of a human hair. When X rays or gamma rays enter the chamber, they leave a trail of ions which collect on the wire, neutralize its charge and move the quartz fiber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Geiger Counter for Everybody | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Temperate Water. Dr. Newell went to Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean rocks by U.S. and Peruvian assistants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Big, Cool Sea | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Inauguration of a drive to collect $10,000 in unpaid pledges to the Council Service Fund was also announced at the meeting by treasurer Ray A. Goldberg '48, as appeals mailed today will coincide with an entry-by-entry canvass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Raps HAA for Lack Of Prior Warning on Ticket Deadlines, Asks Adjustment | 10/7/1947 | See Source »

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