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Meanwhile Argentina, which pegged her peso to the French franc when sterling went off gold, pegged back to sterling last week as South Americans awaited a "devaluation race" between the dollar and the pound. Stormed bellicose Baron Beaver-brook's Daily Express in London: "The revalued dollar demands an answer and the British answer should be a revalued pound. A great world currency war has been begun by President Roosevelt and he will fight America's trade battle with ?400,000,000 of conscripted gold...
Extracts from petitions to the Council for reimbursement show that one William Baker, doorkeeper lost "1 new beaver Hatt", valued at 1 pound 16 shillings; "1 new Wigg," 2 pounds 8 shillings; and one pair of black shoe buckles. Stephen Hall, a student numbered among his losses a bed and bedding, food, kitchen utensils, 2 cod lines, and a quart of rum which he valued at 1 shilling sixpence. Other itemized lists show that the students kept house for themselves to a large degree...
...Beaver School's hockey field on Saturday was the scene of a whirlwind contest between the sub-debs of Winsor School and the Dunster House Wildcats. Here the blue blood of the Back Bay was ruthlessly shed by the red-blooded Dunster men in what passed for a field hockey game. While the game was being held up due to the unexplained absence of the ball, the Dunster House Band, disguised by patriarchal beards, paraded up the field playing what was thought to have been "Hit the Line for Harvard," and climaxed its march by successfully hurling a silvered...
...following article was written for the Crimson by Eugene R. Smith, headmaster of The Beaver Country Day School...
...skirted scarlet coat and beaver hat, the perennial herald of the National Horse Show, Ringmaster Dutch White, blew "Pop Goes the Weasel" with many a false squawk on his coaching horn and another Manhattan social season commenced last week. It was more than a New York occasion. Dutch White's tootling this year opened a Golden Jubilee. Horses from Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Kansas and Czechoslovakia, riders from five nations (attracted also by last month's Chicago Fair horse show-TIME, Nov. 6) were at Madison Square Garden to participate...