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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Governor of New York State will deliver the annual oration and R. S. Hillyer '17 Assistant Professor of English, will be the poet on Phi Peta Kappa day, the anniversary meeting of the fraternity which will be held this year on Monday, June '17. For the first time, the meeting will be held at the beginning of the week because of previous conflicts with crew races with Yale which occurred on the same...
...Born in Brooklyn in 1886, Jannings went to live in Germany before he could talk English...
...from the U. S. naval experts in Geneva. Eventually he must submit an opinion on it to the Committee of Imperial Defense, which will pass the report on to the Cabinet. Meanwhile the formula is conveniently shelved and thus kept out of the political campaigns that are swaying English public opinion in preparation for the coming General Parliamentary Election...
...instance, has no loud speaker, no electric sets, and no choice of programs-a standard program being furnished by the government. Forward-looking Mr. Aylesworth, however, predicted an eighty million audience for his radio chain and visioned President Hoover and King George giving a joint radio address to English-speaking peoples next Thanksgiving...
...Tokyo lately, 400 university students were asked by the house committee of an English-speaking society to decide by ballot which were the Ten Greatest Englishmen. The plan: to hang portraits of the Big Ten in the society's clubhouse. The students elected the following Big Ten: Robert Louis Stevenson, Admiral Nelson, Ramsay MacDonald, George Bernard Shaw, Edward I., David Lloyd George, Shakespeare, Darwin, Adam Smith, Pitt the Younger...