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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often men go through college without making the acquaintance of even the most obvious treasures of the University. Either because of indifference or lack of information the Germanic Museum, which was opened to the public just a year ago, is generally ignored by undergraduates, although many outsiders are regular visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "INTRODUCING--" | 4/3/1922 | See Source »

Contrary to the announcement given out a week ago, inter dormitory baseball will be organised this year as usual between the three Freshman dormitories, it had been planned to drop it this year a Freshman sport due to lack of interest in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN DORMITORIES TO BE REPRESENTED BY NINES | 3/29/1922 | See Source »

...jokingly to a delegation of American business men who visited him recently "Gentlemen, you will and me better than my predecessors, You notice I have only one arm, so naturally I can't sted as much as the other men!" what has held up recognition heretofore has been a lack of confidence in the ability of the party in power in Mexico to back up its guarantees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEXICO'S HALF-TIDE | 3/29/1922 | See Source »

...whole difficulty in Mexico lies far deeper; it is the total lack of any strong tradition to use as a cornerstone in building up a government, English speaking peoples have established themselves into strong, firmly-knit nations all over the world, and the underlying secret of their success has been the Angio-Saxon tradition of the common law, as deeply ingrained as the English stock itself. Germans have held together through common inheritance of the agelong tradition of loyalty to the chief, handed down from the wandering tribes of the "Germania" in Tacitus's day. France, shaken by revolutions half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEXICO'S HALF-TIDE | 3/29/1922 | See Source »

...editorial Friday, in which you took a stand against the importance of football in college, I should like to day that I think your six points were badly chosen and that you are seeking the wrong remedy for what I fail to see is such a great evil anyway. Lack of space prevents me from going very deeply into my arguments, but I am willing to go into any of them more fully at your request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/27/1922 | See Source »

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