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Adding to the general fun is the conductor, who swings Tarzan-style from Yale to Yale in an effort to collect his fares. The girls meekly surrender their dime, as a rule, but the male element jumps off and runs for a while (if he hasn't already been swept off by a passing car), regaining the trolley after the conductor has passed or has given the whole thing up as hopeless...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Elis of Two Centuries Shun Ways of Crimson's Radicals | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...laboratory, Thimann has announced, will also conduct extensive experiments to determine the effects of hormones on plant growth. These studies are being financed through funds provided by the American Cancer Foundation in an effort to collect all possible information concerning growth in both plants and animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thimann, Expert In Plant Growth, To Head Bio Lab | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

Agency representatives are authorized to collect the price of tickets for which the applicant will receive a receipt which can be exchanged at the theatre box office for tickets on the night of the performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duhig Named To Top Post in Brooks House | 10/18/1946 | See Source »

...wind, laden with the stench of garbage, brought good only to golfers, who played free on the municipal course because there was no one to collect greens fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Something in the Air | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...what authority does the current Council limit the right to referendum to those demon reformers who can collect 500 names on a petition? By what right does it limit the powers of proposing and ratifying amendments to its own membership? Merely because 17 members of a Student Council guessed that these provisos were equitable ten years ago? Even then they were not convinced. Reports claim that these back-room sessions were "smoke-filled and heated." But while the document lay on a table in Phillips Brooks House for thirty days, waiting for someone to raise an objection (which would have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: We Are the Law | 9/25/1946 | See Source »

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