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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the innumerable criticisms of the Junior Prom which have appeared in your mail columns of the past few weeks, the proposed referendum brings a loudly discussed question to a head. As a member of the class eligible to vote, I appreciate the opportunity of expressing my firm conviction that the Dance, as it is now planned, is not likely to succeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diminuendo | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

Wilson's plan was, however, complicated by the firm roots the existing club system had taken in Princeton life. In order to win to his plan the club members, especially the graduate members, he proposed an involved and never completely formulated plan whereby "the clubs should gradually allow themselves to be absorbed into the University by the natural process of becoming themselves residential quads, and so retaining their historical identify at the same time that they showed their devotion to the University by an act of supreme sacrifice." How them, should selections be made? There is the obvious objection that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Applauds | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

...accuracy colored to disadvantage. The blame is traceable directly to the laxity which prefers to permit valuable information to leak out comfortably to be mishandled in the press rather than direct its course officially. The University owes it to itself and to its constituents to assume a firm guidance of publicity and insure the official publication in full of Harvard news when it is news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IN PRINT | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

...under Roosevelt. President of the Equitable. Mr. Potter still fondly calls himself a mining engineer, rather than a banker. He was long associated with the Guggenheims. For a period he even gave up his office with the rich bank to become a member of the (perhaps) richer Guggenheim Bros. firm. The Guaranty's resources then were just about a half-billion. But the War was on in Europe. Morton died; Hemphill had become chairman, Mr. Sabin president. Under President Sabin the Guaranty sold vast bond issues for the Allies, later vaster ones for the U. S. The War over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fourth $1,000,000,000 Bank | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Hornblower & Weeks: F. Dewey Everett and Edward V. Jaeger, market advice editor, of New York; W. David Owen, James J. Phelan Jr., Henry B. Dearbon of Chicago; bringing the firm's memberships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Honors List | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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