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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three cheers for Lampy! Many complaints have been heard from all quarters concerning the decadence of Lampy and his interiority in comparison with other college papers of the same type. But the fertile brain of the editors has at last, brought to light a new source of humor from which no doubt they will be able to draw a wealth of new and original jokes, and will thus relieve the present monotony of reading jokes which range anywhere from the pre-historic to "The Best Joke I Ever Heard" in the last Boston American. The idealism and breadth of vision...
...Heard in Manhattan at the Plaza Hotel ten-year-old Oscar Throngren recite a poem, "The Bells," composed by the Prince's brother. Little Oscar was dressed in the costume of Varmland, consisting of yellow knickerbockers, white stockings, red jacket, red and black cap. The Prince knew others of the children gathered there from a visit they had paid him in Sweden: "How you've grown!" said...
...Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., died in 1920, his associates started a fund to give awards to employes who had distinguished themselves by "conspicuous public service." Last week the Vail Medals were given for 1925-five in all, three to women. And so the public heard how Mrs. Josephine L. August, night operator at Cassopolis, Mich., frustrated an attempt to rob the First National Bank; how Miss Ruby LaVerne Wilson, at Washington, Ark., tried to stop some bandits; why Emory Daniel Stine, lineman, waded into an icy stream at York, Pa.; what Repairer Everett C. Nelson...
...Nashville, the Supreme Court of Tennessee heard a world-famous case. Crowds jostled in the streets outside. Judges, lawyers, stenographers entered the Supreme Court Chamber by an open window in order to escape the press of people...
...Then was heard the appeal of John Thomas Scopes, convicted last summer and fined $100 for teaching evolution, contrary to the state law, in a public school at Dayton, Tenn. For Mr. Scopes appeared John T. Neal, onetime head of the state law school, Charles Strong representing the Unitarian Laymen's League, Arthur Garfield Hays for the Civil Liberties Union, Henry Colton on behalf of the Tennessee Academy of Science. They argued that the law was unconstitutional, that evolution and Christianity are not mutually exclusive...