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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incoming students this evening at 7.30 o'clock at the Phillips Brooks House. This reception is usually held on a Wednesday, but this year because of the fact that the University will not hold a formal reception for 1929 tonight, the Phillips Brooks House has shifted the date of their welcome a day ahead...
...general, the case records show a sharp drop about 1920 in the percentage of cases in which intemperance was a factor, but very decided and fairly consistent increases since that date. There is an encouraging number of cities, however, that report decreases in 1924. For the most part, the 1924 figures fall short of the level of 1916-18, and in some cases the difference is striking . . . There is some reason to think that the period 1916-18 represents the crest of a wave of intemperance as a cause of dependency, and if this is true the figures...
Arms and the Man?The Theatre Guild opened its promised Shaw cycle with the first of the modern war satires. First in date, that is; What Price Glory is probably a deeper satire of the heart of things and soldiers on the line...
...that fantastic city who averred that Dr. Straton must have come upon a family argument, or mistaken the antics of some street ragamuffin for a crime. It was too much for the Chicago Evening Post, which promptly offered the Baptist preacherman $100 if he could definitely establish the date and location of the crimes he had observed. Replied Dr. Straton...
There were nearly a dozen candidates in the field and the interest centered on the Republican contest, in which four aspirants were entered. Those four were: Robert M. LaFollette Jr., running on his father's platform; Roy Porter Wilcox, onetime state senator, candi- date of the Republican state organization, Francis E. McGovern, former Governor (1911-15) running on a compromise Coolidge-La Fol- lette platform; and Daniel Woodward, "Coolidge-Dawes" candidate with Ku Klux support...