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These organizations and all others with a special need for speakers or entertainers submit their requests to Phillips Brooks House. There the Speakers' Bureau functions as a clearing-house for the University "greats" and their admirers. The Bureau also gives men of unknown calibre a chance to display their wares. The variety of subjects is endless, and any one with a special interest of any kind is eligible...
Influenced by the need of a simpler and less expensive method of taking posture pictures, Norman W. Fradd, Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, and M. C. Reed of the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1925, perfected a means by which satisfactory silhouettes were produced. A camera man was obtained from the Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc., and the resulting machine was the silhouetteograph...
...months to come. The controversy as it started was over the question of "How much power and jurisdiction has a dean of men (or of women) over the students' most intimate personal affairs?" And this of course carried with it the implication: "How much power do the deans actually need under the American system of education...
...aspects at Colorado, we obviously have a very special example of the case. The overwhelming conservatism of students at this University would probably make such a controversy impossible. The students here, being conservative, probably do not need a great deal of regulation; likewise, being conservative they are more likely even to ask for regulation than to plead against...
...Indians. When Dyott arranged with Aloique to be taken to the scene of Fawcett's death, Aloique promised, then one night disappeared. News of the white men spread. Indians swarmed to their camp, demanding presents. It began to look as if the Dyott expedition too would some day need a search party. Then Dyott, after telling the Indians they would give presents next day, then start upstream, escaped with his party in the middle of the night, paddled downstream for 14 hours, got away. Says Explorer Dyott: "That Colonel Fawcett and his companions perished at the hands of hostile...