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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...represent the two colleges in the Oxford-Cambridge meet on July 13 in the Stadium. The work of the respective teams against each other and against their other opponents was taken into account in picking the two entries for each event and several Harvard Freshmen were added to the list as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Team Which Will Meet English Picked on Basis of Dual Games | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Hereby has Harvard, with a reputation for doing consistently right by its faculty, set a precedent that the rest of the universities on the Carnegie list must follow. Comparatively low salaries, painfully slow promotion, and constant demands for more and more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into bad enough repute without adding the prospects of a penniless old age. Some financial provision must be made for the retirement of devoted servants who have divided their activity between expounding the learned book and worrying over the account book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Filling the Gap | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

Building Materials. On farms are houses, barns, outbuildings, for which a husbandman must buy bricks, cement, lumber, glass, shingles. By its committee the House was asked to increase tariff rates on these building materials. From the free list brick was made dutiable at $1.25 per 1,000. A tax of 8¢ per 100 Ib. was laid on cement. While fir, pine, spruce and hemlock were retained on the free list, other kinds of lumber were put under the tariff, with cedar shingles paying 25% ad valorem. The Oregon shingle industry asked for protection against Canadian imports. Chairman Hawley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Bill Out | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...textile industries received added protection?approximately a 10% increase over present rates. In New England, gratification at this benefit was tempered by disappointment at the bill's failure to shift leather shoes from the free to the dutiable list. The House committee was pressed by the farmers for a duty on hides, which was rejected and with it New England's plea for a shoe duty. Committeemen felt they could not "defend" such an increase on the House floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Bill Out | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...list of 43 men who are to serve on the Student Advisory Committee to assist the class of 1933 was announced yesterday by W. W. Ryan '30, chairman of the committee. More than half of this number, 29 in all, are Freshmen this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RYAN ANNOUNCES STUDENT ADVISORS FOR COMING YEAR | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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