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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Approximately 1,000 Alumni, faculty, and students are expected to attend the testimonial banquet on February 16 for Colonel Charles R. Apted, who has been head of the Yard Police for 18 years and has been working in the Yard in one capacity or another for the past forty years...
Died. Clyde Engle, 56, for the past 15 years coach of freshman baseball at Yale; of a heart attack; in Boston, Mass. As a Boston Red Sox pinch-hitter he hit the decisive "$50,000 fly ball" that Fred Snodgrass of the New York Giants dropped in the tenth inning of the eighth and final game of the 1912 World Series...
...itself Verdun will not resolve for good and all the questions about Remains' pattern and Remains' gifts. Many threads of narrative are left hanging in the past, many characters remain A. W. O. L. There are eleven volumes still to come. But all by itself Verdun makes clear Remains' distinction as a novelist, and it is considerable. It lies in the fact that he has been able to fuse the detachment of a social historian with the vision of a creative artist. From a formal standpoint Verdun proves him at least the equal of any modern writer...
Addition of 136,280 volumes brought the total of eighty libraries in the system to 4,079,541. The collection has doubled in the past 20 years, Metcalf announced, and this rate of increase has been fairly constant for a century...
...University Library during the past year passed the mark of 4,000,000 books and pamphlets, Keyes D. Metcalf, University Librarian, announced Saturday in his annual report...