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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from crew headquarters on the Charles has come news that is stirring the eager interest of old Harvard oarsmen through the length and breadth of the land. As the day of the first regatta dawns this excitement has been communicated to undergraduates, so that when the gun sets the blades flashing this afternoon the eyes of all Harvard will be on the straining oarsmen. It has been long since victory smiled on Crimson crews, and the vague and insistent rumor that there is to be a change in fortune is enough to set Harvard's hopes beating high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG REGATTA | 5/9/1925 | See Source »

...United States," says the Transcript, "there have been graduated, in round numbers, 900,000 men--and at the present moment there are actually in the colleges of the country about 700,000. In other words, there are almost as many students now in the colleges of the land as have been graduated from all the colleges during two centuries and a half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY THE RUSH? | 5/9/1925 | See Source »

...consideration of the College authorities and, therefore, this Committee feels that to make a definite recommendation, in regard to additions to the present Stadium or the building of a new Stadium, is unwise. However, the Committee feels that it is distinctly advisable to consider the acquisition of additional land in the vicinity of Soldiers Field which could be used to advantage in extending athletic facilities in general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SPORT EQUIPMENT IS URGED BY ALUMNI | 5/8/1925 | See Source »

With these restrictions, the zoo may do a land-office business in job-lots of beasts, with salutary educational effects on the fraternal brothers, many of whom do not even know what their chosen beast looks like. Prospective "brothers" may thus avoid the mistake of the Elks, who saw a moose, admired it, and, under the impression that it was an elk, named themselves after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRATERNALLY SPEAKING | 5/5/1925 | See Source »

...mark out the impassable barrier between birth con trol and the law of his Church. "Latterly, into the public eye has been thrust an open propaganda that shocks the moral sense of every true follower of Christ. Christian sentiment against it has found expression in the law of the land forbidding the dissemination of the knowledge of its practices. Yet the downright perversion of human cooperation with the Creator in the propagation of the human family is openly advocated and defended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sin | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

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