Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church and in company with his brother. The two visited the President and also gave a dinner. William devoted his efforts to religion, Charles to politics. Charles said to reporters: "I see no plan which will give the Democratic Party the support of a majority of votes in the East without setting it up against the desires of the voters of the West and South...
...take it that most of the unrest about Harvard's state has sprung from the old grads pining for the panty days. The democratic student at Harvard would not be aware of any menace to the grand old institution were it not for the atmosphere of dread east over the place by the old gravis, who treasure the past like a sacred jewel. But the past is forever being violated, and it happens that this is an era of particularly swift and radical change, natural and orderly, nevertheless. A brass task? Or a doctor? I think we need the brass...
...Monday morning Laundry Bag Sweepstakes was won this week by Sing Sang Sung, formerly of East Somerville. The local boy managed to abscond with all the laundry bags in Randolph, thus setting a new interdormitory record. On the fifth landing he gained a certain victory by throwing the remaining bags out of the window to a team-mate below. These weekly competitions of the laundries are limited to no sect or nationality, and are run on a pure sporting basis. By tacit agreement the laundry bags are the lawful prize of the first comer. When the scramble through the entries...
...facilities--the Arnold Arboretum, the Herbarium, the University Museum, the Bussey Institute, the department of biology--into an academic organization which will foster scientific research into agricultural problems is an improvement for which there is apparently a real need and to which there can be no valid objection. Professor East's recommendation states clearly, however, that "it must not be thought that the carrying out" of such suggestions "will make Harvard the place for graduate study in agriculture that it ought to be." His further recommendation that $12,000,000 be expended to make Harvard such a place does seem...
...financial needs of the University are satisfied, the question of a highly developed agricultural school may justly be considered. Even then men will question the wisdom of developing even a graduate school of agriculture in the most highly industrialized section of the country. Only so far then as Professor East's report recommends coordination of existing facilities and their proper upkeep can it meet with approval. Other departments of the University have a prior claim to expansion...