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...Memorial Society meeting on Monday at 7.30 o'clock William Burrage '37 will speak on John Harvard. After the meeting, at which important business will be transacted, the members will canvass the Yard for the Freshman Class Gift. The original canvassing was scheduled for last night, but the consensus of opinion was that Friday night was not too favorable a time to obtain donations. The meeting will be held in the upstairs Common Room of the Union...
When querted about Admiral Byrd's solitary sally into the frigid wilds. Mr. McCaleb replied. "Personally, I think it is very silly. But of course, it is useless to criticize Admiral Byrd until he has a chance to defend himself. The consensus of opinion among his most intimate friends seems to be that this move was motivated by reasons wholly psychological. If Admiral Byrd's sole reason was to observe human reactions. I would advise him to come back and set up a but on top of Mt. Washington...
Based on the researches and arguments of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka. Bohemian-born curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, the theory that North American Indians are of Asiatic origin has very nearly reached the status of a verdict by circumstantial evidence. Ethnological consensus is that the Mongol forbears of Amerindians crossed from Asia to Alaska some 15,000 years ago, crawled slowly down across Canada. From that time the story of their movement to the Eastern U. S. where white invaders found them has been fragmentary and obscure...
This is the consensus of opinion obtained from the ranks of both undergraduates and graduates alike, canvassed by the CRIMSON during, the spring recess. All are unanimous in the belief that the Engineering School has failed to keep stride with the advance of the University as a whole...
...spirit in her." From that lack of spirit, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of Abyssinia's present monarch, crafty brown Haile Selassie. The Arabian version has it that the Queen of Sheba's name was Balkis, that she went to Solomon in fear and trembling. Consensus of scholars is that the capital of Saba (Sheba) was Mareb, about 750 mi. from last week's putative discovery. Once a flourishing and autonomous trade centre, during the early Christian era Mareb fell to successive conquerors and its decay was hastened by the collapse of a great irrigation...