Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attention is called to the fact that during the first Reading Period, which extends from January 3 to January 15, students are expected to be in Cambridge and are subject to the same rules and regulations as during the terms of formal teaching...
...first meeting for 1933 hockey candidates is to be held today at 5.30 o'clock in the Smith Halls common room. L. O. Pratt '26, the newly appointed Freshman hockey coach, will be on hand to give a short talk. Pratt was defense star on the 1926 Harvard sextet and ended his college career in the victory over Yale that year in the Madison Square Garden. Last year he played with other former Crimson stars on the University Club sextet. Coach Joseph Stubbs and Captain E. T. Putnam ocC will also address the candidates...
...countries precludes the possibility of any wholesale grafting of England's educational system upon that of the United States. Undoubtedly there are some features of the English system which may be useful in an American College, but just what these are can be more soundly determined if at first the House Plan is approached in an attitude of honest experiment, unprejudiced either way as to the incorporation of English ideas...
...President Hoover last week knocked the first word from Patrick Jay Hurley's title of Assistant Secretary of War. On the same day the President asked Mr. Hurley to change the name of Fort Russell at Cheyenne, Wyo., to Fort Warren as a ''fine tribute" to the late Senator Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming...
...seven-way shuffle of ministerial posts last week. Three "career" ministers were promoted to better posts: Evan E. Young from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia, Roy Tasco Davis from Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about the State Department, all seven are glib in Spanish...