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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forward thinking, even brash in his public policies is General the Honorable James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. A former Boer commander who harried the British long and successfully from 1899 to 1902, General Hertzog only occasionally succumbs to his native Dutch caution, as he did last week upon contemplating the spectacle of stolid South African farmers hastening to buy U. S. motor cars on credit.* "The disease of purchasing motor cars," said he before the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress, "is a real menace to the welfare of the Union. The purchase...
...following story is composed of excerpts from an article written for the current Atlantic Monthly by LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, former president of Radcliffe College and Dean of Harvard...
Dartmouth will have a covered hockey rink for the coming season. An announcement from the President's office states that funds anonymously provided enable the College to proceed at once with the construction of a building to be located on the site of the former rink at the east end of the Alumni Gymnasium. President Ernest M. Hopkins in making the announcement said that work on the rink would be rushed in order that the varsity and freshman squads may occupy the building at the start of the hockey season...
...paintings by Henri Rousseau, French expresisonist, whose simplicity and lack of the artificial form both a point of departure and a goal for Professor Josten's composition: The music is neither based strictly on African themes and rhythms, nor is it entirely subjective; it offers some translation of the former, and simultaneously treats the emotions of the white man in the jungle...
...latest story going the rounds about the Army game--barring the rather absurd charge about the game being two minutes too long--is about the Bowman-Gilligan collision, in which the former was knocked-out completely for an hour or so, being hit on a more vulnerable spot on his cranium than was Gilligan, who recovered in a minute or so. Just before swooning the plucky Cadet signal-caller is alleged to have said "Leave us sit down a minute, Tommy." We will not go bail for its absolute authenticity, but it is a nice little addition to the saga...