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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these reformer people as queer long-haired strangers who care neither for the best or the nice things in life. But the Boston dinner party of the other evening proved that they too can become gorged with hilarity and paint the town as red as the rest of their less significant brethren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR GANG | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...Dean Nichols impending departure does more than throw into relief one side of the Assistant Dean question. His contact with the student body wherever it has been of an official or less formal nature has made him a host of undergraduate friends who will feel the College's loss as a personal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE TRADITION FALTERS | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

...Rhodes Scholars since at the time of their creation, few other Americans went there and 96 (the maximum number) was not an excessive proportion. Now that so many go on their own, I believe that the total of Americans has risen to about two hundred but even that is less than a twentieth of the total enrollment and I imagine that one could find several national groups (though perhaps of American origin) at Harvard in higher proportions than this. With regard to the displacement of the English by American competition, it is worth noting that in the past few years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Point Counter Point | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

...first U. S. citizen to take up ballooning as a sport, first person to give a full account of what Wilbur and Orville Wright accomplished, great protagonist of the Wrights in France. But in France where the elder Lahm has lived in retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling horizontally to give the effect of fixed wings) and who flew it recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Wesleyan University, for safekeeping, photographing and occasional exhibiting, arrived last week eight pages of cramped and cryptic handwriting. The bushywooled savant whose pen had scratched, squiggled, crossed out and corrected was no less a personage than Germany's Albert Einstein. These pages were the original manuscript of his Zur Ein-heitlichen Feld-Theorie (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wesleyan's Treasure | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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