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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student Council budget system which Hoyt will direct next year, was inaugurated in the fall of 1926 and has proved so successful in the past three years that it has become a fixed institution. The system is intended to facilitate the collection of funds for the various drives which occur during the year, and it is the duty of the Student Council Budget Committee to regulate the distribution of these funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTS HARPER TO PRESIDENT'S CHAIR | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

...Class of 1933 until the officers of the Class are elected early in the spring. Under his guidance and with the cooperation of the Freshman proctors, a 1933 executive committee will be established for the temporary management of Freshman affairs, while dormitory committees will be appointed to facilitate the fall activities of the various groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTS HARPER TO PRESIDENT'S CHAIR | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

Edward Gordon Craig, famed British stage designer, son of the late Actress Ellen Terry, announced last week that next fall he would make an extensive U. S. lecture tour. His last U. S. visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...ambled, as they usually do, placidly and gregariously about the halls of their undergraduate years. Several seemed perturbed, some even seemed alarmed last week. What disturbed them was a rumor that their college endowment-77 millions, or eight millions less than Harvard's (greatest U. S. endowment)-might fall into political hands and be spirited away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taft on Feather-Heads | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Fortnight ago the armies of the rebellious generals of the southern province of Kwangsi moved against Canton, capital of Kwantung province, rich, commercial seaport of the Nationalist Government. Canton's hasty preparations for defense seemed woefully inadequate. Oracular foreign correspondents took the fall of Canton for granted, foresaw a powerful rebellion against the Nanking government with the city of Canton as a base for the rebels. Such correspondents under estimated Kwantung strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ding, Dong | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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