Word: 30th
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...30th festival ushered in the greatest of the Pasadena pageants, "The Victory Tournament." A military spirit pervaded the day. Parades of soldiers, long lines of be-garlanded guns comprised the major part of the morning exercises, while in the afternoon a Mare Island team of marines struggled manfully but in vain against an eleven from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
...30th of October a more or less informal game was played with a very fast aggregation of Chinese students in which the latter...
...program of Commemorative Exercises for Memorial Day has been arranged by the University Memorial Society. They will be held in Sanders Theatre on Friday morning, May 30th, at 11.30 o'clock. Ex-Governor Augusts E. Willson '69, of Kentucky, will deliver an address, and Professor Jefferson B. F. Fletcher '87, of Columbia University will recite an appropriate poem. The Reverend Professor Albert P. Fitch '00, of Amherst College, will conduct the opening prayers, and it is expected that Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, will preside. Selections will also be rendered by the University Choir...
...Before the war the strength of the navy was 60,000, and it is expected that for a considerable period we shall keep a force of about 225,000. This great increase will require some new source of trained officers. All the present naval appropriations will expire on the 30th of June, and unless Congress is called in special session before then, there will be no funds with which to operate the navy. For this reason, we have to be extremely careful in all expenditures, and can take no steps toward the establishment of naval units or the increase...
...mind or of the belly. If he had been on Boston Common yesterday his respect for the belly would have considerably increased. Fifty thousand souls yelled themselves hoarse against "the trick of a minority," a Boston Tea Party on a large scale was planned for the evening of June 30th, signs were displayed such as "First our beer, then our tobacco and then --" and "We fought for Democracy and we got Prohibition and Spanish Influenza." Whether prohibition be good or not the reaction against it is a healthy American one. The bloody Bolshevik forgets his paroxysms, the politician his politics...