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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course this year is the addition of a small amount of instruction in essentials of public speaking. This is being given under the direction of F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking and Celian Ufford '19, assistant in the English Department. As in past years the second half of the course will be devoted to a change in curriculum...
Like Mark Twain and John Singer Sargent, even a sea-elephant might think it funny to see his own obituary notices. But great-tusked, bulging-eyed, three-and-a-half ton Goliath, "the only sea-elephant in captivity," employe of Circusman John Ringling, never looks happy, and last fortnight he looked no happier when the press carried countrywide news of his death (TIME, Oct. 7). There was one sentence, moreover, which might have given gloomy thoughts to the happiest of sea-elephants: "Goliath will be mounted for the Field Museum [Chicago]." While the Field Museum congratulated itself, Goliath was basking...
Some 60,000 packed the Stadium Saturday afternoon and watched Harvard battle the Indians on even terms during the first half, succumb to the wizardry of Masters running in the third period and then wilt miserably under the final onslaughts of the Hanover forces. In the first quarter Marsters' work brought the ball from his team's 37-yard stripe, where he received a punt, to the 4-yard line, whence Sutton went over for the score. The Crimson reversed the order of things in the second period. B. Ticknor, after catching a Green dropkick, advanced to Harvard...
Robert Walcott '95 has been elected chairman of the Cambridge Tercentenary Committee to succeed J. H. Beale '82. Royall Professor of Law in the Harvard Law School, who will be absent from Cambridge the second half year on sabbatical leave...
...greatest trouble, we run up against in the early part of the year is the readdressing of mail sent just to the University. Why, as many as 1000, 1500, or even 2000 letters come in each day, and usually half of these are invitations to the students! Sometimes a staff of several men has been kept working as late as 10 o'clock in the evening readdressing letters; and so great is the desire of the public for information that whenever there is a light burning in the evening from the window of our office, people...