Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard-Cambridge debate which is scheduled to be held in Symphony Hall on October 23 may not take place at all owing to a shift in the Englishmen's itinerary. In a recent letter to the Debating Council, they requested an earlier date for the contest. According to the officers of the Council, it would be impossible for the Crimson speakers to prepare in a much shorter time than that originally allowed...
...prolific list of competing "rays" cropped up. Dr. T. F. Wall, of Sheffield University, England, applied for patents on a "means of transmitting electrical energy in any direction without the use of intermediate transmission wires," in which the British authorities are also said to be interested. Two other Englishmen, Prior and Raffe, have similar devices. Grammachikov, a Russian, has invented a ray that is favorably considered in the Soviet war offices. The German Government is reported to have a ray machine that last year brought down 13 French planes in Bavaria (hushed up but later admitted by the French). John...
...Englishmen are greatly worried over the sale of English art treasures to U. S. millionaires, who have bought $60,000,000 worth of British paintings and other art works since the War. Many connoisseurs look to the Government to stop the alarming export of English Art by some embargo similar to that in effect in Italy. But Premier MacDonald said (at the recent banquet of the National Gallery Centenary celebration) that private subscription was the only thing that could save English Art for England...
...Cambridge team, representing the Cambridge Debating Union, crosses the Atlantic before college opens this fall, going first to Canada, where it will tour and debate for two weeks. Entering the United States about October 15, the Englishmen will go as far south as New York City and then turn back north into New England. Harvard or Bates will be the last debate on the cambridge schedule. The Englishmen return to England on October...
Captain Pfaffmann, Ingraham, and Briggs will sail on June 5 to prepare for the Harvard-Yale versus Oxford-Cambridge tennis match scheduled for August 2 to 4. Before this annual contest, which the Englishmen won last year, the Harvard team will play about ten matches in and near London. The international encounter will consist of 21 matches, each player participating in two singles and three doubles matches...