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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Riverside, second largest U. S. military prep school (first, Culver), is a remarkable institution. It has two establishments. For five months (in fall and spring) it lives Spartanly in the Blue Ridge foothills at Gainesville, Ga.; each winter it goes for three months to its castle in Florida. Most remarkable thing about Riverside is its headmaster, General Sandy Beaver...
...fall of 1931 it was barely saved when twelve Philadelphia banks, investing in panic-prevention, pledged it $50,000,000 credit, deposited $12,000,000 cash. Later the twelve banks, backed up by Reconstruction Finance Corp., forced the resignation of the president, hired instead short, short-tempered George Washington Brown Jr., RFC's former Philadelphia manager...
Despite plans under consideration for revision of the Curriculum of the Harvard Dental School, a regular Freshman class will be enrolled next fall for four years of study under the present curriculum, Dean Leroy M. S. Miner announced today...
Among the false rumors arising was that the Dental School was to close its doors this fall...
...This fall the University's weather scientists put into operation the country's first automatic radio weather station, transmitting regular broadcasts of weather conditions from uninhabited stations. The apparatus broadcasts on a wave-length of two and a half meters hourly readings of wind direction and velocity, sunshine conditions, pressure, temperature, and humidity...