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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then he said his wife had contributed $40,000, his aunt $50,000, a college friend $11,000, his brother Amos $11,000. The grand total might be $195,000. That equals the amount for which Mr. Newberry of Michigan was "severely condemned and disapproved" by a previous investigating committee. However, Mr. Pinchot's Pennsylvania has more than twice the population of Michigan, hence the per capita amount was less...
...Says the Grand Rapids Press...
Opinions both favorable and adverse have greeted the announcement of a now Harvard chapel as a War Memorial. The Alumni Bulletin this week prints two of the more favorable opinions, one from a Michigan newspaper and one from the chairman of the Harvard Memorial Committee. The Grand Rapids Press regrets that State universities cannot have such an opportunity, while Allston Burr '89 proposes a nationwide Harvard rally on Armistice Day this year, with the purpose of stimulating interest in the Memorial. The statements follow...
Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. '27 of Brookline won the grand prize in the New York Times' Current Events Contest in which the prize winners in 11 universities took part it was announced, here today by Colonel L. H. Holt of the Department of Economics and History of the United States Military Academy. Colonel Holt was a member of the committee which passed on the contestants' papers in the final examinations...
...Contest, which will be an annual fixture in American colleges hereafter. Each of the contestants who took part won the prize of $250 and a gold medal in the local contest held in his university. Wyzanski carried off a gold medal, a preliminary prize of $250 and a final grand prize...