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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen of the Belgians,* last week earned pats on the back from his hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
...ship a hundred voyages round the world, for a man eighty-five years of life-either record, measured against ordinary lives and voyages, is worth respect. Next week, Captain Robert Dollar will celebrate his eighty-fifth birthday by sailing on his S. S. President Taft for his fiftieth circumnavigatory voyage since the initiation of the Dollar Line's round-the-world service in 1924. "Mother" Dollar, shipmate of 33 crossings to China and Japan, and on his previous world cruises, will share his cabin. Next week, another one of Robert Dollar's ships, the President Polk, will back...
...December, 1928, competition for the Rhodes Scholarships is open this year to competitors in 32 states, including Massachusetts. Candidates may apply either in the state in which they reside or in any state in which they have received at least two years of their college education before applying. Application blanks, containing information may be obtained now at 5 University Hall...
...Number the Lampoon has definitely made its break with the traditional Brooks Brothers garb and has stepped out in the smart raiment of the New Yorker. When one sees the cover of this latest number, one wonders only: Why hasn't it happened before? No, one doesn't either! Realizing that the R on the rampant bicyclist's sweater is merely atmosphere, one still wonders if in the good old days those he-hellions did wear Radcliffe sweaters...
...Klux Klan, one reads, is dying out. Either this statement is false, and the invisible Empire still exists in all its potency, or some one in Cambridge has committed an anachronism. In either case, the merry days of melodramatic anonymous letters and stones east through windows have returned, not only in the mystery plays so prevalent now, but in real life. A group of undergraduates is warned against holding a debate: a window is broken, and a still more threatening note received; the Cambridge police come and stand guard around the beleaguered clubhouse; a weird series of events to take...