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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wealth; most of the negroes have three or four, while the richest may have as many as 500. On the other hand, divorce is just as easy as marriage; if the woman is dissatisfied, she simply leaves her husband and returns home without ceremony, if she gives her former mate the sum paid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Natives of Congo Develop Dangerous Craving for Liquor; Marriage Contract Rests on Sufficient Quantity of Goats | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

...Librarian contrary to the practice in former years will be appointed by the Graduate Secretary under the new amendment. The remaining members of the Cabinet who are selected by the executive board of the Brooks House, will be announced shortly after the election of officers. These men include the heads of the Law, Dental, Medical, and Graduate Societies and the various undergraduate committees that carry on the work of the organization, the Social Service Committee, the Foreign Student Committee, the Chapel Committee, the University Committee, and the Speakers Bureau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOMINATIONS FOR P. B. H. POSITIONS ANNOUNCED TODAY | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

...history of Harvard sport was staged yesterday at the Big Tree Pool as the second division of the University meets and was attended with great success. After a series of extremely close events, Standish and Smith Halls ended with 23 points apiece; first place was awarded to the former, however, on the strength of its victory in the relay race. There will now be a brief cessation of activities to allow yesterday's first-year men and Monday's fraternity swimmers to rest up for the open University division, which is to be held a week from today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STANDISH DEFEATS SMITH AT BIG TREE | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

...yard relay race yesterday, which was eventually to prove the deciding event, opened slowly, but speeded up with each successive man. Standish and Smith raced almost even for six lengths, but the former's spurt at the end captured the contest by a couple of feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STANDISH DEFEATS SMITH AT BIG TREE | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

...roar of the ventilating apparatus in the upper lecturer room and the Library is so loud as to prove a distraction in the latter and even to drown out a low-voiced lecturer in the former, while the air in the upstairs room seems to benefit not at all from the uproar when a large course such as Fine Arts 9a is in session...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

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