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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton, N. J., June 18.--With the gift of $250,000 from T. N. McCarter, President of the Red Bank Trust Company of Newark, which was announced tonight after the first act of the Princeton Triangle Club's show in the gymnasium, the desire to make possible the erection of a well equipped theatre has been realized. Added to more than $100,000 which has been saved by the Triangle Club from its 36 annual shows, the gift will build and equip the new theatre...
...plans accordingly." He also promised that, if necessary, the six-month time allowance before the order takes effect would be extended. And, finally, he promised to bring the question to the attention of Congress when it should next convene. But he said that the order, based on the Immigration Act of 1924, could not be changed without authority from Congress, nor could any arrangement be made by which Canadian foreign born could be put on the quota ahead of or in place of their fellow nationals who lived at a greater distance from...
...Superintendent F. Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, who told all the Wets to "go out in the Atlantic Ocean, build an island of your beer kegs. . . . This Governor of New York," continued Mr. McBride, "who nullified state rights by signing a bill to repeal his state enforcement act, wants to transfer his activities to the White House. Are we going...
These words were spoken last week in Camden, N. J., by a man with a torrent of white beard, clad in loose-fitting, almost shabby clothing. The man was masquerading as Walt Whitman in Christopher Morley's tart one-act play, Walt. Author Morley, smiling, robustious, pensive, was present as master of ceremonies...
...outrageous instance of mutilation has recently occured at the Library in connection with this course. Within a few days the eight final pages of the article on Aesthetics have been torn from the reading-room copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, presumably by some member of the course. Such an act will, I am sure, be promptly and vigorously condemned by every one of the other 35 members of Psychology 9, and even, I hope, by the who who did it, when he reflects that his deed wronged his fellow students who had the same right to the use of this...