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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White waitresses are to replace the former negro waiters. White table cloths will be introduced again for the first time in many years. Comfortable arm chairs will replace the old stony and stiff backed chairs. And, as the greatest innovation of all, Memorial Hall will be open to women with escorts for the first time in its half century of existence...
...sentencing by Judge John Richard Caverly of Leopold and Loeb to the penitentiary for life is the end, so far as court records are concerned, of what has been called "the greatest murder trial of all times." It has resulted, however, in giving a preferred position before the bar of public opinion to the case against capital punishment. In the past, the subject of capital punishment has been approached, mainly, from what may be called the "sentimental viewpoint." Its opponents have stressed "long lists of mistaken verdicts." Its advocates have sometimes been dangerously close to the theory of personal vengeance...
...Washington and in the State of Illinois vied with each other in proposing new legislation to cripple the "Pit." Farm organizations were calmly planning to take over the grain business in its entirety. Grain traders could make no profits; grain brokers no commissions. Predictions that the world's greatest grain exchange would shortly shut up shop were freely made...
...from the top of the Washington Monument. After Street, Edward Ainsmith was discovered. At present one "Muddy" Ruel risks his palms and finger tips stopping Johnson's 'bulletlike "in visibles." Tall, blonde, 37 a native of Humboldt, Kan., father to three sons, John son has been called "greatest pitcher of all time," a possible equal being "Christy" Matthewson of the New York Giants. 1913 was his biggest year, when he won 29 of 36 games pitched...
Nobly conceived by one of Harvard's greatest benefactors, the Harvard Union was founded in 1899 that all Harvard men might have a common meeting place in Cambridge. The Union was to be a club which any member of the University might join if he so desired. It was hoped too that it might become the centre of that type of discussion which has made the Oxford and Cambridge Unions so valuable. Since its founding the Union has steadily increased its facilities until today it compares most favorably with the Harvard Clubs of Boston and New York...