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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...savages of the interior, and who is planning a search in those parts for a French deserter, wanted by the authorities. Together Perken and Claude find the Royal Way, eventually discover a temple with valuable bas-reliefs, which they hack off, load on their bullock-carts. Then they begin the slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands of the savage Mois. In the village where they are held captive Perken finds the French deserter he is looking for-blinded and chained to a grindstone. Though badly wounded...
Hostilities will begin at 3 o'clock on Monday with the hurdles, followed shortly by the 50-yard dash and the 300-yard run. After that will come the mile and one half event, then at 4 o'clock the shotput, and fifteen minutes later the 35-pound weight throw...
...this is where he really should begin. We remember all too well the refusal of Mr. Mellon to countenance the raising of the rediscount rates in 1928 and 1929. And yet if he had followed Mr. Warburg's advice, we can readily imagine the storm of abuse which would have poured in upon him. Indeed, the great political problem of the central bank board will be to find men who will serve for the sake of a moral reward fearlessly when men shall revile them and persecute them, and say all manner of evil against them; to find...
Tomorrow afternoon Harvard will have an opportunity to hear one of America's leading contemporary poets when Archibald MacLeish gives the Morris Gray Poetry Fund's annual lecture in Sever 11. The talk, which will begin at 4.30 o'clock, will be open to all members of the University and to others especially interested...
Charity may begin at home, but for one aspiring Freshman, the true meaning of virtue was made manifest in a blaze of light when he received his corrected History 1 midyear. To the bottom of the essay question, which had been crossed and checked and scribbled over by the mentor, was appended the following generous award: "One point for partial neatness...