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...dormitory, is sadly out of date and provides for only a neglibible number of students, a large portion of the building being given over to rooms for Law club meetings. The magnificence of the new Langdell Hall makes the other Law buildings seem all the more shoddy by comparison. Such a nationally important institution should have a unified set of buildings centering about the recitation hall and library. Here the heavy schedule imposed by the Law school could at least be made more attractive by alleviated living conditions. Of course to those who can afford to hold forth in apartments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUSTICE FOR THE LAW | 10/22/1930 | See Source »

Utterly different in character, the products of the more casual atmosphere of Harvard are inevitably put on the block for comparison with those of the grim government industry, a comparison that involves not only team play, but also individual undergraduate attitude and sportsmanship. But with the traditional slum and gravy signs, the future generals will come again for the annual fiasco, and John Harvard will discard his Bible for a glance at the future defenders of the rights of the peaceful...

Author: By The Pointer, | Title: ARMY COUNTS ON COORDINATION IN GRIDIRON CLASSIC | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

...deviates not one bit from the above manner except that being in Boston the nudity and the dirt are a bit covered up. It is the first of annual reviews under this name which Mr. Carrol promises to produce and the following editions should not have to suffer by comparison...

Author: By O. E. F., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/15/1930 | See Source »

...Comparison of the teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

Rising Sierra. Study of the records of eleven seismograph stations taken during an earthquake last Thanksgiving day in Nevada and California indicated that the Sierra region is rising, said Professor Perry Byerly, seismologist of the University of California. A comparison with recent material on Pacific Ocean disturbances showed a heavier granite formation in the Pacific region, indicated that the ocean bed is crowding against the lighter Sierra region, is shoving the mountains higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: National Academy | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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