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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reflecting that all good things come slowly, that Rome was not built in a day, that patience is a virtue, that duty comes before ambition and business before pleasure, etc., etc., Candidate Smith passed a busy and contented last week in his executive mansion at Albany. He functioned in different capacities...
...consider it regrettable that the prizes offered by the university for theses, etc., are given so little publicity by the CRIMSON and by the faculty. If the CRIMSON allotted at least as much space of such prizes and scholastic honors as it does to athletic victories, perhaps as much effort would be made by students to win such desirable scholastic honors as is now made to achieve athletic fame. First Report, Class...
...also entertained. Such things as had to be kept in mind are as follows: propaganda, in the aims of which over ten thousand advertisement posters and an equal number of placards were printed and sent off to students' unions and foreign authorities, the hiring and decorating of hotels, auditoriums, etc., excursions planned, and preparing for the general welfare of the delegates...
Died. Charles Edward Montague, 61, satirical author (Disenchantment, Right off the Map, etc.), for a quarter century chief editorial writer of the Manchester Guardian; of pneumonia; in Manchester, England. At the outbreak of the War he dyed his greying hair, understated his age to enlistment officers, later fought in front line trenches and was cited three times for bravery...
...husband, Charles G. Norris, is a writer of note (Bread, Salt, etc.). Last week her son, 16-year-old Frank Norris, 2nd, namesake of Author-uncle Frank Norris (McTeague), student at Tamalpais School, San Rafael, Calif., won first prize in a special essay contest conducted by the Brooks-Bright Foundation. The subject of Son Norris's essay: The effect of the growth of population and diminishing food supply on future relations between the U. S. and Great Britain and their relations to other nations. The contest he won was among schools not members of the Foundation...