Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the University will have a chance to display their forensic abilities tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock at the Union, when the Debating Union will throw open the floor to all those present after a formal debate between four men on the proposition: "Resolved, That this house believes that the Monroe Doctrine, in its applications to South and Central America, should be abandoned...
...Lewis Carroll exhibit has been arranged in the Widener Memorial Room and will be on display through next week. Manuscripts made while the author of "Alice in Wonderland" was a student at Eton and Oxford, Carroll's own copy of the first edition of the classic fairy tale, and the first rough draft for "Through the Looking Glass," are among the many treasures in the exhibition...
...Army Ordnance Association's* ninth display at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., the biggest U. S. demonstration of destructive devices since the War. Bombs dropped and banged. Tanks lurched and rumbled. Field artillery galloped and crackled. Machine guns chattered. Smoke screens fumed. The courteous Signal Corps advised through loudspeakers: "We advise our guests to place their fingers in their ears," but only a few heard, having rammed in ear wadding before the 16-inch chaos was followed by two more convulsions, one from an 8-inch Navy rifle, one from a 12-inch howitzer...
...amusing as well as valuable first edition of the Poems of John Milton, dated 1645, is also on display in the Memorial Room. Under the engraving of Milton in the frontispiece is an inscription in Greek. It is evident that the engraver could not read the ancient tongue of the Hellenes, and that Milton had a quiet little joke at his expense. The inscription reads, "When you compare this with the form Nature herself fashioned, you will say that the picture has been engraved by an unskilled hand. Friends of mine not recognizing this portrait will please laugh...
...Vermonters have already been tried in action. Last Saturday they journeyed to Baker Field, New York, and were trounced, 32 to 0, by a rejuvenated Columbia eleven. On this occasion the Catamounts were given little opportunity to display their brand of football. The Blue and White backs tore through the line to score almost at will...