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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision of the Harvard Flying Club to continue regular flying practice this year until the first of July marks an innovation in the policy of the Club, according to announcement made yesterday by I. T. Williams '30, recently elected president of the organization. Formerly the flying was discontinued at the close of the Examination Period, but sufficient interest has been evidenced this year to warrant an extension of the customary season...
...order to make way for the first unit of the new House Plan, the building at 34 Holyoke-Street, which provides quarters for the Economics and Naval Science Departments, will be moved to a site on Plympton Street formerly occupied by wooden tenement houses, now being torn down, it was learned yesterday from A. L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University. Work on moving the structure will probably be started immediately after Commencement...
...first thing that presents itself is the employment of the fund for the presentation of more concerns during the year in Paine Hall. At present the Whiting Concerts form the principal and practically the only opportunity offered by the Music department of hearing visiting artists...
...Conn., June 6--E. J. Brown, Harvard crew ceach, continued his policy of shifting the men on his first two University crews this afternoon. Lawrence Dickey '30, rowing at No. 5 in the second boat, went to No. 3 in the University shell, replacing R. I. McKesson '31, who took Dickey's empty slide in the second crew...
...first slim indication of a comparison between the Harvard and Yale University crews came today when each boat covered the four mile course rowing against the watch. The Crimson eight, taking to the water first, spun down the four miles from Bartlett's Cove to the railroad bridge at a beat of 25 strokes to the minute in 22 minutes 17 seconds, The tide and a light breeze aided the Harvard oarsmen...