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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Field, who is a former president of the CRIMSON, was chairman of the discussion group on college journalism, one of six committees which discussed various problems of college life. Although the committee reports from the Columbia, Missouri, convention have not yet been sent out, Field explained the general feeling of his group with regard to journalistic problems...
...reached the Porcupine river, a tributary extending almost due north from the Yukon. Inasmuch as there was practically no night at this stage of the journey, the sun being up 22 hours a day, the party continued on their way without a stop for 160 miles up the Porcupine. Although they were well within the Arctic circle, the temperature was about 98 degrees for 22 hours out of the 24. After a 40-mile trip over land, the party came to the end of their journey. The prospector, whom they were seeking, told them the details of the discovery...
...Half of the tusk was protruding from the bank, the other half being wedged between stratas of rock, as was discovered when excavations were made in the attempt to dig it up. This work took several days, as care had to be taken not to injure the tooth, which, although cracked in places, was otherwise in excellent condition...
...Although its existence is no longer marked by the constant flourish of trumpets that accompanied its birth struggles, student government appears to be doing well enough, in a quiet way; and once a year it takes pleasure in calling together its representatives from the convenient extremities of Maine and California, to take stock, likewise in a quiet way, and to celebrate another anniversary. The National Student Federation meeting is one of the rare front-page topics left of the sensational tumult that a few years ago nearly brought faculties and undergraduates to blows, and did result in an almost universal...
...Mississippi Company was organized by the Scotch economist and gambler, John Law, to run the French finances and monopolize the Mississippi trade. Shares were put on the market at 500 livres and mounted in the course of the craze to 20,000, although French finances were in a bad way and there was no Mississippi trade to speak of. Men sold their all and hastened to Paris, crowding the Rue Quincampoix, the Bourse of that day. Shares even were sold for a company to exploit perpetual motion and "for a design which will hereafter be promulgated." In 1820 the whole...