Word: center
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before Harvard University had broadened its representative membership by making direct efforts to attract men from the south and west its government was, and very properly, largely in the hands of New England alumni. Close association with the center of activity was considered a necessity for election to the Board of Overseers: and since comparatively few candidates lived in places far from Cambridge there arose a custom which has been followed with more or less regularity of selecting prominent graduates in either Boston or New York for the offices. Recent elections have shown that this tradition is still an active...
...House of Commons on Tuesday left little doubt as to whether Britain or Soviet Russia had committed the breach of confidence. A police raid on Soviet House in London secured conclusive evidence that the Russian trade officials, under cover of commercial activities, had used their facilities as a center for the Red International, that vaguely sinister organization devoted to military espionage and subversive activities throughout the Empire, and North and South America as well. Communist agitators were trained on ships of the Russian trading companies with a view to subsequent service on British vessels. The entire Soviet headquarters seems...
...strictly scholastic in nature. These opportunities are of primary importance to the English scholars, but other elements of a more social nature must of necessity enter into the equation, if the visitors are to be accorded a full measure of welcome. Situated as it is in a great metropolitan center, the University too often relies on the undoubtedly amusing but nevertheless inhospitable attractions of the city to those who have come not only to enjoy Harvard's academic distinctions but also at least to peer into that illusory thing known as Harvard life. When they depart it is with kindly...
...Hopkins Grammar School, now called Hopkins Hall, will be razed to make way for the new structure. The buildings will be Gothic in style, harmonizing with the Memorial Quadrangle and the Sterling Memorial Library, next to which they will stand. Three large open courts will occupy the center of the block. In one of them a small building providing temporary quarters for distinguished visitors to the School will be erected...
...Burns '28 found both the Maine catchers to his liking, and added three stolen bases to his long list of thefts. The fleet center fielder pilfered second and third in succession in one inning. Jones, too, showed his speed by committing larceny of the rubber plate that marks home on Soldiers Field...