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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the selection of the first eight Juniors to the honored society comes the choosing of 32 Seniors, the first election taking in members of the Class of 1930 this fall. Twenty-five more Seniors will be made members of the Phi Beta Kappa in the spring; but the full quota from the Junior Class, for this year, will be chosen today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTIONS FOR PHI BETA KAPPA TODAY | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

...this year, Phillips Brooks House has received eight applications from outside organizations for entertainers. Most of these requests have come from Oliurches in the vicinity, while one has come from the South Boston Neighborhood House, and another from Reading, a suburb of Boston. Churches which have made arrangements for entertainment are the Dudley Street Baptist Church, the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Saint Peter's Church, Saint Ausganius Church, and the First Congregational Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS LEND AID TO P.B.H. PROGRAM | 11/14/1929 | See Source »

With nearly eight hundred men in English A1 and with seven hundred in History 1, most of the "professor-and-student-on-a-log" doctrine of which Mark Hopkins was wont to dream, seems to be relegated to the limbo of unattainable idealism. Yet these two courses are but collssi among a race of giants. With four other courses attracting more than five hundred men apiece, the gap between the fountain head of learning and the disciple grows immeasurably wide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

...little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest. By few white men's eyes have these curious creatures ever been seen. Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Johnson, famed intrepid jungleers, set off last week from Manhattan with eight motor cars, many tons of camp & photographic supplies, two batteries of sound-cinema equipment, two dozen automatic cameras, cinema cameras so that U. S. movie audiences may buzz with wonder at the sound and sight of the Congo's animal wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Johnsons Off Again | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...premiere of this vigorous, ethical tale 19 years ago. Composer Puccini and Author Belasco were both present. Puccini was awarded an eight-foot wreath, Belasco was "divinely happy." Yet he declared he was happier last week. Jeritza and he took a dozen bows together. He kissed her hand. She kissed his cheek. The other players did not count. As Forty-Niners they were patently masquerading. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Dick Johnson) had suffered and sobbed in the best Italian manner. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett (Jack Rance) was more credible, but looked funny in an Abraham Lincoln makeup. It was Jeritza who raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wild West | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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