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Then last week Chairman D. H. Hanna of the Ontario Liquor Com-mission made ominous pronouncement. Said he: "American visitors will be disappointed if they expect any big blowouts in Ontario. Liquor cannot be bought without a permit and one-day tourists will not be able to get either permits or liquor." He warned U. S. railroads, reported as hav-ing advertised special trains to Ontario that "excursionists" would not be given permits, would return dry, disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Tourists, Excursionists | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...first debate which began at 7:30 o'clock, J. I. Ware, K. K. Kettzle and S. E. Myers were the losing affirmative team from section 14 while C. N. Com stock. H. T. Wenner, and M. V. Anastos presented the negative side. Professor Bilss Perry. J. T. Murphy '30 and P. H. DeWllde '27 were the judges with P. M. Shelton '30 as chairman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMYSER'S SECTION WINS TWO ENGLISH A DEBATES | 5/21/1927 | See Source »

...were almost out of sight when Lord Burghley finished for his quartet. The other significant event was the winning of the decathlon by Vernon Kennedy, an unsung youth from Missouri State Teachers' College. As everyone knows, it took pliable muscles and potent lungs even to finish this decathlon - com posed of a 100-metre dash, running broad jump, 16-lb. shot-put, running high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1,500 metre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Penn Carnival | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...Orleans, where the Thompson trip was to terminate in welcome-speeches, in reception-com-mittees, masses of citizens were gathered, not to greet but to repel a visitor. Chagrined, but sympathetic, sorry, the Mayor gave $1,000 to Memphis floodfighters. In all, his party contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Deluge | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...floor of antique Hollis Hall. Thither, every Monday night of college for some 33 years, have swarmed scores of undergraduates from the passing classes. The room they enter is not large. There must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be com- fortably disposed on furniture, windowsills and floor. Then cigarets are borrowed, matches found, pipes gurgled clean, and someone arranges the windows and door to prevent a draft but assure ventilation. Usually there is a search for a pair of eyeglasses, but as "Copey" keeps an innumerable quantity of these, variously ground for varying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Copey | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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