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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the team have played the game of "seeing how much they can get away with". Nevertheless the time limit of a single half hour during the afternoon is for the benefit of the majority, and has been proved necessary. The University authorities have shown themselves ready to adjust rules to the convenience of the student, as yesterday, when the time for signing for courts was changed at a request from the players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING BY PROXY | 11/15/1922 | See Source »

...Rowing Association, Dr. R. H. Howe Jr. '01, Director of Rowing, Mr. Clement B. Wood '98, of Philadelphia, Pa, and Manager Sheridan Logan '23 represented the University. This first meeting proved so successful that it will probably be an annual affair. All the different colleges represented were able to adjust their schedules to the mutual satisfaction of each other. The date of the Childs Cup race was set for April 28, and of the American Henley for May 26. The schedule for the 150-pound class was also decided upon. At the suggestion of Dr. Howe the stewards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW A WINS IN FINAL FALL RACE | 11/11/1922 | See Source »

...events, whether the Sick Man returns to Europe or not, the situation indicates for the future that more care must be used in any attempt to adjust a strait-jacket to the Terrible Turk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEDICINE FOR THE SICK MAN | 9/28/1922 | See Source »

...whole, the Yard looks much the same. University Hall has not yet assumed its February gravity, and perhaps Holworthy appears a trifle rakish; but these things will adjust themselves in time. The atmosphere is strangely familiar. There is the same haggard-faced individual who informs you that only eight C's will stave off his forced retirement at Mid-Years. The same cheery greeting from the man who has forgotten your name; but, shaking your hand warmly, asks what kind of a summer you have had, and makes a careful note of where you are rooming this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE OLD GUARD DIES BUT--" | 9/22/1922 | See Source »

China needs to adjust population and resources, unless she is content to remain economically foot-bound. It is true that China is over-populated; there is not, however, an extreme general density of population. In China as a whole the population per square mile is less than half that of Massachusetts and one-third that of England. But there are huge spots of density; as for example, in the far western province of Szechwan, four million people--the equivalent of the population of Massachusetts--life on the Chengtu Plain, an area less than twice the size of Rhode Island...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RETARDED EFFORT TO ADOPT CIVILIZATION OF WEST IS LARGE FACTOR IN CHINESE PROBLEMS | 4/12/1922 | See Source »

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