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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customs are in the form of restrictions placed upon the "plebes." There are restrictions in the mess hall, in barracks, and on the campus. In the mess hall a plebe sits at attention while he eats. His eyes may not wander farther than the perimeter of a circle of radius seven inches, whose center is at the center of his plate; and he must see that all of the upperclassmen at his table are properly supplied with food. In barracks a plebe always removes his hat before entering the room of an upperclassman. He is restricted from using "Diagonal Walk...
Four Massachusetts members of this year's entering class have been awarded scholarships of $400 each by the Harvard Club of Boston. The Harvard Club awards scholarships annually to Freshmen of the University living within a limited radius of the Boston State House. The awards also stipulate that the recipients be graduates of public schools within the limited radius. The holders of the scholarships for the academic year 1929-30 are R. J. Coss '33 of Saugus High School; Benjamin Lelyveld '33 of Rockland High School; C. U. Stevens '33 of Melrose High School; and D. M. Sullivan...
Monster Seaplane. To the Glenn L. Martin Co. went a Navy contract for the largest, most powerful, fastest flying boat ever developed. Specifications: three Pratt & Whitney motors producing 1,725 h. p. Top speed, 140 m. p. h. Cruising radius, 2,000 miles. Crew, five men. Cost, $150,000. Construction time, one year. This all-metal seaplane will serve the Navy as a "fighting patrol...
...Cambridge this same statute annoys many Harvard students. The Hemenway Gymnasium, the squash courts, both boathouses, and the Soldiers Field athletic facilities are all open Sunday afternoon. But since a corner of Jarvis Field lies within the charmed thousand-foot radius around a church the tennis enthusiast must cross the river to the crowded and inferior courts of Soldiers Field...
...best dressed" seem to flourish particularly well in the warm climate farther south, and bring home to those in Cambridge the difficulty of cultivating the same sort of thing under the exigencies of local conditions. Nothing but the most artificially regulated amosphere can develop analogous products within a radius of ten miles from Harvard Square...