Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should a reapportionment of seats be made on the basis of the 1920 census without increasing the House membership above its present, cumbersome 435, the following States would lose seats: Missouri, 2; Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Mississippi, Nebraska, one each. That is the 2.75% error. Should the estimated census of 1930 be used, 23 seats would be involved, or 5.3% of 435. Losses then would be: Missouri, 3; Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, two each; Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, one each...
Three men have been nominated for the position of vice-president of the Harvard Union for the coming academic year. They are: Lawrence Trever Grimm '29, of Los Angeles, Cal., Kenneth Douglas Robinson '29, of Hewlet, Long Island, and Henry Frederick Schwarz '29, of Greenwich, Conn...
...Bruin outfit has had a more or less disastrous season this spring and has won only five of 11 contests, having lost games, among others, to Yale, Dartmouth, and Rhode Island State...
...German Admiralty, the World War exploits of the famed German cruiser, Emden, have been put into a breath-taking film. It shows how the Emden swooped down upon and sank two dozen British ships in southern seas, before the Sydney put her beneath the waves off Cocos Island. It contains no propaganda...
Impersialism, if ever justified, would certainly be excusable on the part of an over-populated island next a disorganized country rich in undeveloped natural resources, but China has been held sacred by the governments of the world ever since the Open Door policy was adopted. Much as the abstract principle of liberty appeals to publics of every land, it would be almost too inconsistent for England to turn from her Egyptian "problem" or the United States from its Nicaraguan campaign to warn Japan out of Manchuria. But altruism by proxy is a favorite virtue of governments, and may yet save...