Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Freshman football has broken all previous squad records this year. Over 200 men reported for practice and as a result a large group of those who had signed up were unable to obtain equipment...
...group has just recently returned from the west where they have been making a study of different university and public libraries. They are not only making observations in regard to the structure of different libraries, but are looking into the administration...
...work of getting the 10-ton bell off the truck trailer upon which it was moved and into the shack took a group of movers over four hours. In order to lower the huge chime to the ground, a runway had to be built from the rear of the truck and skids put under the bell to roll it down to the ground. At the first attempt the great weight splintered a pair of skids six inches by eight. While this work was going on, the driver of a passing truck stopped to read the Russian inscription on the bell...
Their visit is unique in the fact that last Tuesday a similar group from Cambridge University, England, made a tour of Widener Library for the same purpose. This is a coincidence, however, as the two groups have no connection other than they are both under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation...
Four of the Oxford representatives are world-renowned scholars. Sir Henry A. Miers, M.A., D.Sc., Fellow of Magdalen College, is the chairman. He is professor of Mineralogy at Oxford. The director of the British Museum is also included in the group. He is Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, G.B.E., K.C.B., M.A., Hon. D. Litt., Hon. Fellow of New College and Magdalen College, and internationally known as an eminent classical scholar. The third man is Sir Edmund K. Chambers, K.B.E., M.A., Corpus Christi College, who is the author of several books on the history of the English theatre...