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...these motors use gasoline for fuel. It must be a high-grade gasoline. And it is expensive. A cheaper fuel, such as fuel oil, is desirable. So research has been going on. Diesel engines burn fuel oil. But Diesel engines are ponderous. Packard's triumph is that its engineers have designed a light-weight Diesel-type motor that burns cheap fuel oil efficiently, and is air-cooled. Although it is a radial, its invention gives promise of an "in-line" air-cooled successor...
...undergraduate the system opens opportunities for currying parental approval unequalled even by the palmy first grade days when Mamma beamed her joy over the coveted "Ex" in deportment: No matter how gray the skies may hang over such courses as Philosophy A or Evolution 6, the mediocre but conscientious Tufts student can now know that the brightest of silver linings beams out from the old report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock...
...seven times a mark of C; eight or nine times a mark of L; more than nine times a mark of FF. Any student receiving a mark of FF in chapel must attend chapel with two different groups the following semester and will receive a grade in each group...
...figures, the majority of the Seniors now in the field were judged, after the divisional examination in their Junior year, potential honors men. The CRIMSON can reduce this statement to its lowest terms; exactly two-thirds of the Seniors in the field were rated as of distinction grade...
Clifford B. Longley, Chicago born, was taken to Kalamazoo when he was old enough to talk. He talked his way successfully through grade schools and the better part of a high school course. Then he went back to Chicago, studied engineering and took a diploma. At length, he wound up in Washington with the U. S. Engineers...