Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increasing tendency of Harvard to rid itself of local limitations as to student registration is made clear by a statistical statement of the facts in the report of the Associated Harvard Club's Committee on Schools. This report, which will be read at the meeting of the Associated Clubs in Memphis three weeks hence, shows that whereas in 1900 New Englanders outnumbered students from any other section of the country by more than three and one half to one, in 1925 the ratio was less than two and a third...
These statements, firm, clear, dispassionate, were little more than a notation of the fact that China has been fired by the Nationalist program, "China for the Chinese," to a pitch seriously menacing the long supremacy in Chinese affairs of the Great Powers...
...When I arrived in Holland," writes Wilhelm in his memoirs, "a crowd at Enkhuizen ... by an unmistakable gesture toward the neck followed by an upward movement of the hand . . . made clear to me how thoroughly the caricature of my person produced and disseminated by Entente propaganda had fixed itself in their minds. . . . Like a prisoner, like an outlaw, I move among these Hollanders who turn away their lowering, shy visages as they pass, or, at most, look askance at me with half-closed eyes. I am the bloodthirsty babykiller ; people are embittered against the Dutch Government . . . for letting me roam...
...these circumstances very marked disorder and looting broke out in Nanking. It was not clear that the insurgents were predominantly of one faction or the other...
...pound class was won by E. A. Sack '28 of the University from J. J. Conroy. Conroy's swings were slow and Sack, using a short left jab was a clear winner...