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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was a "moment" in the extravagantly long evening, it came when George R. Lunn, onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York, lifted his voice above a typewritten document which few but himself had read?a letter from "Al" Smith. Governor Smith was absent if for no better reason than that Mrs. Smith's appendix was just out, but his presence was announced by a demonstration brief and sincere. None interrupted with conventional shouts while Mr. Lunn read: " . . . The declaration of party principles might well be tentatively drafted at the earliest possible moment. . . . In the heat and rush of the Convention...
...worth would have revolted His Holiness, what must have been his bedazzlement upon receiving, last week, mail addressed to him from Russia. In this he found an official communication from the Government at Moscow, which stated that he, Pope Pius XI, had been condemned to death. The letter arrived by registered mail and bore the signatures of Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, Party Secretary Stalin and other Communist bigwigs. It offered grounds for the condemnation in a reference to the Pope's financial contributions toward the support of the anti-Bolshevist movement...
Recent news of the expedition to Northern China undertaken by Dr. J. F. Rock, of the Arnold Arboretum, under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, has been received by Professor Oakes Ames '98, Chairman of the Division of Biology, in a colorful letter from Professor Rock...
Professor Rock says in his letter that at the time of writing his baggage and property of the Arnold Arboretum were in the hands of an gent of the Standard Oil Company, and that as soon as the road was open he would be able to ship the latter to Yunnanfu and from there forward it to Boston...
...Above is reprinted a letter containing a criticism of the Student Vagabond, which may be in the minds of a number of other readers of that department. In substance the writer of the letter expresses his disapprobation of what is largely true--that the Vagabond fails to give as much notice to lectures of a purely scientific nature as to those of a more humanistic tendency...